World Wide Web turns 30! Google celebrates with an animated doodle

Google doodle celebrates 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web by dedicating an animated image.

World Wide Web was founded by Tim Berners-Lee 30-years back in March. Despite being common to almost everyone, very few know that the 63-year old English engineer made a proposal for an information management system on March 12, 1989. The title of his proposal was ‘Information Management: A Proposal’. At that time, he was 33-years old. Google celebrates the 30^th anniversary of the World Wide Web with a doodle portraying analog computer.

The proposal made by Tim Berners-Lee was on ‘how to link lots of information across lots of computers’. That proposal eventually became the World Wide Web, which today is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that also can be interlinked by hypertext and can be accessible via the Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal to his manager, Mike Sendall, who called it ‘vague, but exciting’. His manager accepted it as it was a new way to manage information that could be shared with scientists and universities across the world. During those days, Tim Berners-Lee was employed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (popularly known as CERN) based in Geneva, Switzerland. He envisioned a large hypertext database with typed links named ‘Mesh’, to help his colleagues at CERN to share information among multiple computers.

Since Lee was a CERN’s employee at that time, his aim was to share experiments and accelerators data at CERN where the planet’s largest particle collider is located. When his proposal was accepted in the following May, he commenced developing the World Wide Web platform and Steve Job’s new computer system, NeXT.

Through the process of Lee’s development, he developed three essential technologies – HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Universal Document Identifier (UDI), later known as Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

A few people might know that info.cern.ch was the first website hosted by CERN. It was made active and also running on Christmas Day 1990. In other words, CERN is also the birthplace of World Wide Web. With this doodle, Google also pays honour and gratitude to Lee who gave all his endeavour to bring a huge revolution in the Internet space.