Twenty years ago this month, something happened at CERN that would
\nchange the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his
\nsupervisor Mike Sendall entitled “Information Management : a Proposal”.
\n“Vague, but exciting” is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod
\nto take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was
\nborn. This week, it’s a pleasure and an honour for us to welcome the
\nWeb’s inventor back to CERN to mark this special anniversary at the
\nplace the Web was born.<\/p>\n
The celebration will take place in the Globe this Friday afternoon from
\n14:00 to 17:30. It will consist of short presentations from Web
\nveterans, a keynote speech from Tim Berners-Lee with a demonstration of
\nthe original browser, and a series of presentations from people that Tim
\nbelieves are doing exciting things with the Web today.<\/p>\n
Although the event is by invitation only, everyone at CERN will be able
\nto follow the event, either via a webcast at webcast.cern.ch<\/a>, or
\non the website of the French news channel, lci.fr. The event will also
\nbe relayed to the Main Auditorium, the AB auditoriums in Meyrin and
\nPr\u00e9vessin, the Council Chamber, the AT auditorium and restaurant 2.<\/p>\n