Tim Berners-Lee Proposes an Internet-Based Hypertext System: Conceptual Origin of the World Wide Web

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, issued Information Management: A Proposal, proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. In his words, this was a "an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN's interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time was 'Mesh'." This document represents the conceptual origin of the World Wide Web.