The Web was invented by physicists Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Berners-Lee proposed the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to keep track of experimental data at CERN. On 4th March 1989, precisely 30 years ago, he submitted the HTML proposal to his boss, Mike Sendall. ‘Vague, but exciting’, were the words that Sendall wrote on the proposal.
Starting from an original image of Tim working on a computer displaying some prehistoric Web pages, including the CERN one, I replaced the image pixels by the text characters composing the following excerpt of the original far-sighted proposal. I then moved the strings using Perlin noise.
"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards. The result should be sufficiently attractive to use that the information contained would grow past a critical threshold." Tim Berners-Lee
