World Wide Web is 30 today

Having been online since 1999, designboom has watched the internet mature over the years. 

Thirty years ago, an English software engineer submitted a "vague, but exciting" proposal to his boss about a system for managing information that would later be known as the World Wide Web. 

Tim Berners-Lee was in his early 30s when he submitted the idea at work, a physics laboratory in Switzerland. He wasn't hired to create a worldwide communication system. He simply came up with the idea because he noticed inefficiencies at work.
 
From tirelessly long loading times to reach pages with tiny images and barely any text (accessible only via modem), to a time where access to the internet is being considered as a human right. it has given a voice to marginalised groups around the world, making a monumental impact on communication and the distribution of information. but 30 years after inventing the world wide web, its inventor sir tim berners-lee has written an open letter calling on the public and politicians to ‘come together’ to end its misuse.

Celebrated in today’s google doodle, berners-lee first proposed the web as an information management system in 1989, while he was working for the european organisation for nuclear research (CERN).

Three decades later, around half of the world’s population is now online and with fears over child-proofing the web, data breaches, and privacy of information, online connectivity is coming under scrutiny.

Today, roughly half the world is online and nearly 2 billion websites exist.