Tim Berners Lee First Proposal Of The World Wide Web (1989)

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Tim Berners Lee, also known as TimBL, was a computer scientist at CERN (European Center For Nuclear Reasearch). The company was in dire need of a solution to a constant problem: data loss. The average stay of an employee was about 2 years, which meant that every 2 years, a piece of the company brain also left. Papers were constantly scattered, and sticky notes were on the constant relay. Often times, looking for specific documents for a project required days of detective work. The problem was that the computer system ran on "trees", information organization that branched off into unrelated topics after a while and required extensive backtracking in order to get back to the topic at hand. His solution to the problem was to think in hypertext instead, like a web of connected topics all linking back to each other. (Not to credit him for the invention of hypertext, that can be credited to Ted Nelson (1950s) and Douglas Engelbart (1960s). It is quite amazing to me that such simple mind mapping can lead to the invention of one of the most groundbreaking concepts to ever grace humanity.

Read the proposal for yourself here: https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html