Information Management: A Proposal

" it would be so much easier if everybody asking me questions all the time could just read my database, and it would be so much nicer if I could find out what these guys are doing by jumping into a similar database of information for them"

In 1989, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal at CERN to develop an information system that would create a web of information. Initially, his proposal received no reply, but he began working on his idea anyway. In 1990, he wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP)—the language computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the Internet and designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet.
He also wrote the first web server. A web server is the software that stores web pages on a computer and makes them available to be accessed by others. Berners-Lee set up the first web server known as "info.cern.ch." at CERN./////ibiblio

His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.////w3

• The Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which specifies how each page of information is given a unique "address" at which it can be found.
• Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which specifies how the browser and server send the information to each other,.
• Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), a method of encoding the information so it can be displayed on a variety of devices./////ideafinder

CERN is a wonderful organisation. It involves several thousand people, many of them very creative, all working toward common goals.///w3

Over the years, openness of information has remained Berners-Lee's guiding principle. That is why he never took steps to gain intellectual property or other commercial rights over the Web, as the international computing community came to realize its immense potential.///MIT

Although the Web's conception began as a tool to aid physicists answer tough questions about the Universe, today its usage applies to various aspects of the global community///cern
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ENQUIRE was an early project (in the second half of 1980)

ENQUIRE is a method of documenting a system.   It concentrates  on
the  way the system  is composed  of parts,  and how these  parts  are
interrelated.//infomesh