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Paul Otlet outlined a concept of a globally connected network of computers in The Mundaneum, an institution he founded in 1910 as part of his work on documentation science.
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Vannevar Bush widely published his idea of HyperText.
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ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking. Several nodes are used from multiple locations.
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Charles Goldfarb, co-inventor of the first markup language GML, and designer of SGML, coins the term "markup language".
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E-mail was invented. Now there was a program to send messages across a distributed network. Also there was 15 nodes (23 hosts) on ARPANET.
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The first international connections to the ARPANET are made between University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway). Ethernet was outlined so that local networks can communicate. How computers send and receive data was specified.
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The Computer Science Department researched computer networks and established networks in USA. USENET was established using UUCP. Almost any topic has a discussion group today.
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While consulting for CERN June-December of 1980, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes. Each node had a title, a type, and a list of bidirectional typed links.
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Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web including the first web browser and editor. For this several names, including Information Mesh, The Information Mine or Mine of Information, were turned down. Tim Berners-Lee and his boss, Mike Sendall, settled on World Wide Web.
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Files available on the net by FTP, posted on alt.hypertext, comp.sys.next, comp.text.sgml and comp.mail.multi-media.
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This graphical browser was developed by a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), led by Marc Andreessen.
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First International WWW Conference, CERN, Geneva. This was heavily oversubscribed (800 applied, 400 allowed). VRML is conceived here. TBL's closing keynote hints at upcoming organization.
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Founding of the Web Society in Graz (AT), by the Technical University of Graz (home of Hyper-G), CERN, the University of Minnesota (home of Gopher) and INRIA.
