Vague But Exciting... Video of CERN Conference Celebrating 20th Anniversary of the Web

Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management: a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Sendall described it, and he gave Berners-Lee the nod to take his proposal forward. By December, the World Wide Web was born, running first as a content management system on CERN computers. Here's the video of the conference. Note the demo of the NeXT computer on which Tim Berners-Lee developed the Web and which was also the first Web server.

Agenda

• Welcome by Professor Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN.

• The history of the Web with Ben Segal, Jean-Francois Groff and Robert Cailliau

• Questions to the panel: Ben Segal, Jean-Francois Groff, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau

• Demo of the NeXT computer on which Tim Berners-Lee developed the Web and which was also the first Web server.

• Keynote: Tim Berners-Lee

• The future of the Web with Chris Bizer, Stephane Boyera, Dan Brickley and Tom Scott.

[JH]