History & technology
The Web began with researchers trying to share their work.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 to help researchers share information.
The idea
A tool’s original problem can be more revealing than the scale it eventually reaches.
An example
The historical starting point here is information sharing among researchers. As an original design exercise, imagine organizing a workshop’s references: what information must people connect, and where does finding it break down?
Try it
Describe a tool you want to build using one sentence about the problem it solves, before listing its features.
More context
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989. The original need was information sharing among researchers across institutions. Technology history
Sources & further reading
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