"The lights were always on in his office," Fluckiger told AFP. WEB IS BORNHis vision for "a decentralised information management system" soon gave birth to the web. Primitive forms of the internet -- a network linking computers -- had previously existed, but it was the World Wide Web that allowed web pages to be collected and accessed with a browser. After discussions with CERN's legal service, Fluckiger decided in 1994 to launch a new open source version of the web. "We were lucky that during those 18 months, no one seized the web," Fluckiger said.

Source: Daily Nation March 04, 2019 07:30 UTC