This web page talks a little bit about the W3C. It's a organization founded in 1994, with the help of Tim Berners-Lee, that helps lead to web to it's full potential. It's members do this by creating software and programs to help guide internet standards. The page also talks about another organization that Berners-Lee founded called WST. It launched in 2009 and helps to promote internet research. The page also includes a short video where Berners-Lee is inducted into the internet hall of fame. He talks about the progress of the internet.
http://www.webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/
This next web page talks a little bit about Berners-Lee early beginnings of the internet. The article mentions and discusses the three fundamental aspects of the internet: HML, HTP, and URL, that Berners-Lee came to invent. The article talks about his first web page and then from there discusses how the internet has evolved from them on.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html
This last web page talks about Berners-Lee's work with CERN and how that brought him to the invention of the internet. The article also mentions TCP/ IP, which allows computers without the same software to communicate. The page talks about how Berners-Lee sent in a proposal to CERN to develop the internet, but it was never replied to. He went to work on it anyways and aren't we glad today that he did!
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