How to fix the Internet's plumbing problem
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 07:01
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Twenty-five years ago, an engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva Switzerland, had an idea that would change the world. Tim Berners Lee sent a memo to his colleagues at the world's largest particle physics laboratory proposing a way for all of its computers—and eventually all the computers in the world—to talk to each other. This memo marks the birth of the World Wide Web.