https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

To:

P.G. Innocenti/ECP, G. Kellner/ECP, D.O. Williams/CN

Cc:

R. Brun/CN, K. Gieselmann/ECP, R. Jones/ECP, T. Osborne/CN, P. Palazzi/ECP, N. Pellow/CN, B. Pollermann/CN, E.M. Rimmer/ECP

From:

T. Berners-Lee/CN, R. Cailliau/ECP

Date:

12 November 1990

The attached document describes in more detail a Hypertext project.

HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already available at CERN.

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