AUTHOR

JEREMY KEITH

Keith lives in Brighton.

He is one of the founders

of the splendid design

agency Clearleft. He has

written various books,

including HTML5 For

Web Designers and, most

recently, Going Offline.

w: adactio.com

n 12 March 1989, a young computer

scientist named Tim Berners-Lee

published a memo. He was working at

CERN, the European Organisation for

Nuclear Research. The thousands of

scientists working there needed a way of

collaborating over the internet. Berners-

Lee had a potential solution. He published

his idea under the title Information

Management: A Proposal.

It wasn’t exactly a page-turner

and the diagrams were completely

incomprehensible. But there was enough

there to get the project started. This

project became the world wide web.

Within a year of publishing his initial

O

Get 30% off with the

code NET30 at

netm.ag/generateJS20

Jeremy Keith

will be speaking at

Connect the web’s building blocks