Major Contributions

In 1989 Berners-Lee proposed the idea of creating a global hypertext document system that would make use of the Internet. His main purpose for this system was to provide researchers with the ability to share their results, techniques, and practices without having to exchange e-mail constantly. “Instead, researchers would place such information online, where their peers could immediately retrieve it anytime, day or night” (Britannica). That was when Berners-Lee first invented the software for the first Web server.