What’s the score,? Twenty years of the World Wide Web, The Economist, March 14th, 2009, at 83.
The web is such an integral part of our lives that it seems to have been around forever. However, it’s only been since 1989 that computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published his ground breaking document, Information Management: a Proposal. His proposal, “modestly dubbed the World Wide Web” was suggested as a way CERN researchers might better manage their research projects. (Berners-Lee is now at MIT where he runs the World Wide Web Consortium.) Although scientists were on the forefront of advancing their research via the web, they tend not to use social networking tools for scientific publishing. The Economist article discusses reasons for such reluctance, as well as incentives for more open source collaboration: reliable measuring tools.
Andy D found a link to Berners-Lee original paper, Information Management: a Proposal. Check out the cool graphic/map on page two!