Timeline - How The Web Was Born - Gillies & Cailliau
General Computers
1935 Vannevar Bush patents differential analyser.
1936 Konrad Zuse begins work on electro-mechanical computing devices
1944 Colossus operational at Bletchley Park
1945 Second WorldWar ends. Vannavar Bush publishes 'As We May Think'
in the 'Atlantic Monthly'.
1946 ENIAC operational at Princeton
1947 Transistor invented.
1948 Manchester 'baby operational
1949 Manchester Mark 1 operational.
EDSAC operational at NPL.
1950 US National Science Pilot ACE operational at NPL
Foundation Established.
1951 First Ferranti Mark 1 delivered.
1954 CERN formally comes into
existence with 12 member
states
1955 West Germany joins NATO
1956 Suez crisis. Ken Olsen builds TX-o.
1957 Sputnik launched by USSR.
1958 Explorer launched by USA ACE operational at NPL
ARPA created by Eisenhower. First integrated circuits produced
1959 Timesharing discussed in Paris
by Christopher Strachey.
Leonard Kleinrock starts working on his thesis about computer communication.
1961 Berlin wall goes up.
1962 J.C.R. Licklider creates the Project Mac begins at MIT
Information Processing Wesley Clark produces the
Techniques Office (IPTO) LINC computer
within ARPA. Doug Engelbart publishes Augmenting Human Intelligence,
which develops into NLS.
1963 President Kennedy assassinated
Licklider's memo to the 'Inter-
galactic Computer Network'.
1964 Start of the Vietnam War. Paul Baran publishes a paper on
what would come to be called packet switching.
1965 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen
Nygaard invent Object Oriented
programming
The term hypertext coined by Ted Nelson
1966 Bob Taylor becomes director Donald Davies describes his idea
of IPTO of packet switching at the NPL.
IPTO funds computer link across the US.
1967 ACM meeting at Gatlinburg
brings together network
pioneers from UK and US.
Donald Davies introduces packet
switching to CCITT
HES hypertext system developed
at Brown University
1968 EEC establishes the COST Doug Engelbart demonstrates NLS
framework for scientific at the Fall Joint Computer Conference
collaboration within Europe.
Network Working Group established
Conversational Computing on the South
Bank--Stanley Gill's prophetic presentation
on the possible evolution of British
networking
FRESS hypertext system developed at Brown University
1969 First Moon landing The ARPANET starts up. RFC 1 written by Steve Crocker.
GML developed by Charles Goldfarb,
Edward Mosher, and Raymond Lorie.
1970 The NPL Network starts up.
1971 The first microprocessors are produced.
Norm Abramson's Alohanet starts up in
Hawaii.
1972 Louis Pouzin's Cyclades network is
demonstrated in France.
The ARPANET is demonstrated in
Washington.
Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail.
1973 Britain joins the Common The first microprocessor-based computer,
Market. the Micral, is launched in France.
NORSAR in Norway The Alto is developed at Xerox PARC
becomes the first
ARPANET site outside the Videotex is invented by Sam Fedida at the British
US, closely followed by Post Office.
University College London TCP development begins. PACNET becomes the first packet-broadcasting
satellite network. Ceefax and Oracle are launched in the UK.
Bob Metcalfe develops Ethernet.
1974 COST project 11, the European Informatics Network links NPL and Cyclades.
1975 End of Vietnam War The Altair 8800 kit computer is released.
The Homebrew Computer Club
is formed.
The Cambridge Ring is developed
EIN becomes fully operational
1976 Apple Computer is founded by Steve Jobs
and Steve Wozniak.
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first head of state to send an e-mail message.
CCITT publishes X.25 standard
1977 Tandy TRS-80, Commodore PET, and
Apple II computers appear.
TITN network becomes operational at CERN
The experimental Internet is demonstrated
The British Post Office launches EPSS.
Robert Cailliau produces Report for use at CERN
1978 Acorn computers is founded in the UK.
CERNET starts up at CERN
TCP evolves into TCP/IP
1979 Alan Kay develops Smalltalk
Usenet starts up
Joint Network Team established in the UK
Prestel launched in the UK.
Donald Knuth releases TEX.
1980 PSION founded.
Sinclair releases the ZX-80 at under P100
assembled--the world's cheapest computer.
EIN decommissioned.
The SGML standard is published.
Tim Berners-Lee writes 'Enquire' at CERN
1981 The first IBM-PC is released.
Acorn wins contract to produce the BBC Micro
French Teletel project starts, eventually becomes
Minitel.
STELLA project begins.
BITNET starts up.
The NSF establishes CSNET.
The British Post Office launches PSS.
1982 Hermann Maurer in Graz extends the Videotex concept by building a microprocessor into his
Videotex terminals.
1983 ACT launches the Apricot computer
The Internet Activities Board is established.
ARPANET switches to TCP/IP TCP/IP available in BSD Unix.
Domain Name System invented.
1984 Macintosh launched.
NSF establishes NSFNET
JANET launched using X.25
BITNET acquies a European arm in EARN
CERN starts to evaluate TCP/IP.
CERNDOC produced at CERN
1985 Sinclair launches the ill-fated C5 electric vehicle
CERN adopts OSI protocols as official policy with
everything else being interim.
CERN chooses TCP/IP to network the computers
controlling its new LEP accelerator.
Intermedia developed at Brown.
1986 Steve Jobs founds NeXT.
Sinclair sells out to Amstrad
Cleveland Free-Net starts up.
NNTP appears.
1987 NSFNET and JANET linked
BITNET and CSNET merge.
RFC1000
First Hypertext Conference held
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Hypercard released by Apple.
1989 Berlin Wall comes down. With five million Minitel sets,
Satellite television starts to France is the world's most wired
appear country.
WAIS.
Archie.
CERN opens its first external TCP/IP connections
Tim Berners-Lee writes 'Information Management:
A Proposal'.
1990 ARPANET decommissioned
Microcosm developed at Southampton
http://info.cern.ch/ becomes first
Web server. HYTELNET
1991 Commercial use of the Internet permitted.
Gopher.
JANET starts to run TCP/IP
alongside X.25
San Antonio Hypertext Conference
Line mode browser.
Erwise browser.
First US server at SLAC.
Viola browser.
1992 Internet Society founded.
Midas browser.
Lynx.
1993 First Web developers' meeting in Boston
WISE project.
White House Web site established
CERN puts Web software in the public domain.
GNN.
Viola runs mini application programs.
X-Mosaic released.
Cello browser for PCs.
1994 CERN's LHC project SuperJANET launched as a
approved. TCP/IP network. Prestel wound up.
Alexandria proposal
Agora.
First Web conference held at CERN.
Netscape.
1995 World Wide Web carries more data than Minitel
for the first time.
W3C founded
Hyper-G handles sound and video
CERN's Web work transferred to INRIA.
1999 Number of Web servers approaches 10 million.
The Cast (Abridged)
Abramatic, Jean-Francois - French computer scientist, Director of Development at INRIA, chairman of W3C since September 1996.
Abramson, Norm - Leader of the team that built the world's first packet-radio network, the ALOHANET, in Hawaii.
Addis, Louise - SLAC librarian, ran the SLAC preprint server and founded the SLAC WWW Wizards.
Allen, Paul - Co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates
Altaber, Jacques - CERN computer scientist responsible for networking for the laboratory's SPS and LEP accelerators.
Andreessen, Marc - Developer of the X-Mosaic browser at NCSA with Eric Bina, and co-founder of Netscape with Jim Clark.
Anklesaria, Farhad - Main developer of gopher at the University of Minnesota.
Arvidson, Allan - Swedish physicist working on the National Library of Sweden's Web archive project.
Atkinson, Bill - Inventor of the Apple Hypertext program, HyperCard.
Babbage, Charles - Nineteenth-century British mathematician widely regarded as the father of modern computing.
Baran, Paul - American computer scientist. Headed the data communications research group a the NPL under Donald Davies. Later chaired the European Informatics Network.
Barker, Ben - Member of the BBN team put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message processors (IMPs).
Bartlett, Keith - Member of the data communications research group at NPL
Bellovin, Steve - Co-inventor with Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Usenet news.
Berners-Lee, Mary Lee and Conway - British computer scientists who worked ont he Ferranti Mark 1 computer. Parents of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Berners-Lee, Tim - British computer scientist. Inventor of the World Wide Web and later Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C.
Bertell, Bill - Member of the BBN team put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message Processors (IMPs).
Bina, Eric - Software develope at NCSA. Wrote the X-Mosaic browser with Marc Andreessen.Bosack, Len - Co-founder of the router-manufacturing company Cisco.
Bright, Roy - Head of Viewdata International Operations in the late 1970s.
Bruce, Tom - Developer of Cello, one of the first Web browsers for PCs at Cornell Law School.
Bush, Vannevar - Imagined hypertext in his 1945 article 'As We May Think'. Profoundly influenced Doug Engelbart.Cailliau, Robert - Belgian informatics engineer at CERN. The self appointed evangelist of the World Wide Web.
Carpenter, Brian - CERN computer scientist responsible for system software for the PS control system in the early 1980s, later head of networking at CERN and president of the IAB.
Cerf, Vint - American computer scientist often referred to as the father of the Internet
for his work on TCP.Clark, Jim -American entrepreneur. Founder of Silicon Graphics and then co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation with Marc Andreessen.
Clark, Welden - American computer scientist and co-author with J. C. R. Licklider of the landmark paper 'On-Line Man-Computer Communication'.
Clark, Wesley - American computer scientist, inventor of the concept of a sub-net for the ARPANET. Went on to build the LINC computer.
Connolly, Dan - American computer scientist whose early efforts towards standardization of the Web helped to ensure that all documents could be read by all browsers.
Cooper, Bob - British computer scientist and founding member of the Joint Network Team that built the UK's JANET and SuperJANET networks.
Cosell, Bernie - Member of the BBN team put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message processors (IMPs).
Crocker, Steve - American Computer Scientist. Worked on the ARPANET and established the tradition of Requests for Comments (RFQs) when he sent a memo to the Network Working Group in 1969.
Crowther, Will - Member of the BBNteam put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message processors (IMPs). Best known for writing Adventure, the first computer game.
Curry, Christopher - Co-founder with Hermann Hauser of Acorn, the British computer company that made the BBC Micro and achieved some success in the early 1980s.
Dahl, Ole-Johan - Norwegian computer scientist. Co-inventor with Kristen Nygaard of Object-Oriented Programming.
Daneels, Axel - CERN controls engineer. Responsible for applications programming for the CERN PS accelerator in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Dautry, Raoul - French government minister and proponent of creating a European laboratory in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Davies, Donald - British computer scientist and inventor of packet switching. The idea was invented independently by the American Paul Baran.
de Broglie, Louis - French Nobel-Prizewinning physicist whose 1949 idea for a pan- European physics laboratory was realised in 1954 when twelve nations signed the convention establishing CERN.
Detouzos, Michael - Greek-American head of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, home of the World Wide Web Consortium.Deutsch, Peter - Co-developer of archie at Canada's McGill University.
Dougherty, Dale - Computer book publisher with the firm of O'Reilly. Organize a meeting of Web developers in Boston in 1993 that has come to be known as the 'zeroth' World Wide Web conference.
Ellis, Alan - Australian polymath university professor and founder of the Ausweb conferences.Ellis, Jim - Co-inventor with Tom Truscott and Steve Bellovin of Usenet news.
Emtage, Alan - Co-developer of archie at Canada's McGill University.
Engelbart, Doug - Pioneer of personal computing. Among the first to think of using computers for non-technical purposes like word-processing. Inventor of the mouse.
Favre, Alain - French student from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM) who worked on an early PC browser at CERN.
Fedida, Sam - British engineer who invented Viewdata at the Post Office Research Station in Martlesham Heath.Filo, David - Stanford University graduate student, co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.
Fluckiger, Francois - CERN computer scientist who assumed responsibility for the web at CERN when Tim Berners-Lee left for MIT.
Frystyk Nielsen, Henrik - Danish student who joined the Web team at CERN 1994.
Fu, Ping - Scientific visualization expert. Worked on the morphing for Terminator 2. Hired Marc Andreessen at NCSA to work on a browser.
Fuchs, Ira - Vice-Chancellor for University Systems at the City University of New York in the early 1980s. Founder of BITNET.
Gassee, Jean-Louis - French computer scientist. Head of research and development at Apple in the early 1980s.
Gates, Bill - Co-founder of Microsoft with Paul Allen.
Geisman, Jim - Member of the BBN team puttogether by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message Processors (IMPs).
Gerard, Mike - CERN computer scientist who worked on the laboratory's packet- switching network, CERNET, in the late 1970s.Gill, Stanley - Professor of Automatic Data Processing at Imperial College, London. Founder of the Real Time Club and outspoken champion of Donald Davies's packet-switching ideas.
Goldfarb, Charles - Co-author of SGML, a highly successful markup language for producing structured documentation.
Groff, Jean-Francois - French computer scientist who went to CERN as an alternative to military service and worked with Tim Berners-Lee. The first Web consultant.
Grundner, Tom - Cleveland, Ohio-based assistant professor of medicine whose community health bulletin board gave rise to the free-net concept.
Hall, Wendy - Hypertext developer and professor at Southampton University, founder of Microcosm.
Hardin, Joseph - American sociologist who was head of NCSA's software development group at the time the Mosaic browsers were written.
Hauser, Hermann - Co-founder with Christopher Curry of Acorn, the British computer company that made the BBC Micro and achieved some success in the early 1980s.
Heart, Frank - Head of the BBN team that won the contract to build the Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for the ARPANET.
Heelan, Bill - Co-developer of archie at Canada's McGill University.
Hughes, Kevin - Author of an important early Web site about dinosaurs at Honolulu Community College. Historian of the World Wide Web.
Hullot, Jean-Marie - French computer scientist whose interface builder became the heart of NeXTStep, the operating system that made the NeXT computer so appealing to Tim Berners-Lee as a development platform for the World Wide Web.
Innocenti, Pier Giogio - Italian boss of Robert Cailliau at CERN. Player in the negotiations leading to the establishment of W3C.
Jobs, Steve - Co-founder of Apple Computer, founder of NeXT.
Johnson, Tony - British physicist working at SLAC who wrote the Midas browser for the World Wide Web.
Joy, Bill - Berkeley graduate student who set up the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) in 1977. Co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Kahle, Brewster - Founder of the WAIS project who went on to establish Alexa, a company to archive the World Wide Web.
Khan, Bob - MIT mathematician and ARPANET pioneer. Kahn was one of Frank Heart's team at BBN and later organized a landmark demonstration of the ARPANET in Washington, D. C., in 1972.
Kappe, Frank - One of Herman Maurer's graduate students who was involved with the development of Hyper-G and Hyperwave at Graz.
Kay, Alan - Computer pioneer from Utah who coined the term 'object-oriented' and, while working at Xerox PARC, produced the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that inspired the Macintosh.
Kelly, Brian - Computer scientist from Leeds who offered Robert Cailliau a demo of the World Wide Web.
Kernighan, Brian - Co-author with Dennis Ritchie of the C programming language.
Kilby, Jack - Built the first integrated circuit for Texas Instruments in 1958.
Kirstein, Peter - British network pioneer at University College London who introduced the ARPANET to Britain and championed the use of TCP/IP protocols.
Kjaernsrod, Steinar - Norwegian computer scientist and member of the team that put the 1994 Lillehammer winter Olympics on the World Wide Web.
Kleinrock, Leonard - Computer networking pioneer who was the first to think about how computers might communicate with each other. Kleinrock's UCLA computer science department became the first node on the ARPANET.
Knuth, Donald - Stanford-based author of the TEX text processing language popular with physicists because of its powerful ability to produce mathematical equations.
Kuiper, Berend - Head of the CERN team put together in the 1970s to bring the control system of the laboratory's PS accelerator up to date.
Kunz, Paul - SLAC physicist who took the Web to America.
Le Lann, Gerard - Member of Louis Pouzin's Cyclades team who ensured that the pure datagram approach pioneered in Cyclades made its way into the Internet protocols.
Leffler, Sam - Colleague of Bill Joy's at Berkeley who oversaw the release of 4.2BSD Unix, a Unix implementation with TCP/IP built in.
Lemmke, Ari - Finnish computer scientist whose students at the Helsinki Unversity of Technology produced Erwise, one of the first Web browsers for Unix.
Lettenstrom, Frans - Swedish physicist working on the National Library of Sweden's Web archive project.
Levy, Steve - BBN vice-president who set up Telenet to capitalize on the ARPANET technology.
Licklider, J. C. R. - American computing pioneer who became the first director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) and provided the inspiration for the ARPANET.
Lie, Hakon - Norwegian computer scientist who came to CERN in 1994 and later joined the fledgling W3C.
Luotonen, Ari - Finnish programming wizard who came to CERN in 1993 and worked on some of the more advanced features of the Web.
Maurer, Hermann - Viewdata researcher who had the idea of networked personal computing in the early 1980s, going on to develop the Hyper-G hypertext system.
McCahill, Mark - Leader of the team that developed gopher at the University of Minnesota.
McElroy, Neil - US Secretary of Defense under Eisenhower who was previously a president of Proctor and Gamble. His idea of establishing a long-range research agency led to the foundation of ARPA.
Metakides, George - Greek director of the European Union's ESPRIT programme. Repre sented Brussels in the negotiations leading to the establishment of W3C.
Metcalfe, Bob - Inventor of Ethernet and co-author of the TCP protocol for internetworking.
Meyrowitz, Norman - Co-founder of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at Brown University.
Mittelhauser, Jon - Member of the NCSA Mosaic team who wrote the PC version of Mosaic with Chris Wilson. Later did the same job at Netscape.
Mockapetris, Paul - Inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS)
Montulli, Lou - Developer of the Lynx browser at the University of Kansas. Went on to invent the notorious 'blink' tag and cookies, and to point a camera at the fish tank in Netscape's offices.
Moore, Gordon - Intel co-found who invented Moore's Law about the growth of computer power.
Muller, Kurt - One of the Swiss delegates on Derek Barber's European Informatics Network team.
Nash, Dennis - Founder of the company D. G. Nash Limited where Tim Berners-Lee worked before coming to CERN.Nelson, Bruce - Carnegie-Mellon graduate student who wrote a thesis on the idea of Remote PRocedure Calls (RPCs).
Nelson, Ted - Self-proclaimed computer visionary. Inventor of the Xanadu system, coiner of the term 'Hypertext' in 1965, and collaborator on one of the first hypertext systems with Andy van Dam at Brown University.
Neuman, Clifford - University of Washington graduate student who developed Prospero, a way of makng the Internet look like a single computer.
Nyberg, Kim - Member of the 'otherwise' team at the Helsinki University of Technology that developed 'erwise', one of the first Web browsers for Unix.
Nygaard, Kristen - Norwegian computer scientist. Co-inventor with Ole-Johan Dahl of object-oriented programming.
Olsen, Ken - MIT computer scientist who built the TX-o, theworld's first transistorized computer. Later founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
Ornstein, Severo - Member of the BBN team put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message Processors (IMPs).
Partridge, Craig - Developer of the Domain Name System (DNS) with Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel.
Pellow, Nicola - British mathematics student who wrote the line mode broswer for the Web whilst on a work placement at CERN.
Pollermann, Bernd - CERN computer scientist whose XFIND system provided a source of ready-made information for the fledgling World Wide Web.
Poole, John - Founder of Image Computer Systems Limited, where Tim Berners-Lee was a director.
Postel, Jon - Unofficial archivist of the Internet, co-developer of the Domain Name System (DNS), and later administrator of that system.
Pouzin, Louis - Franch computer scientist and father of the world's first pure datagram computer network, Cyclades.
Quint, Vincent - French computer scientist responsible for the team that authored Grif, Tamaya, and the Amaya Web browser/editor.
Raggett, Dave - Bristol-based employee of Hewlett Packard and leader of the HTML standardization effort.
Rantanen, Teemu - Member of the 'otherwise' team at the Helsinki University of Technology that developed 'erwise', one of the first Web browsers for Unix.
Raskin, Jeff - Founder of the Macintosh project at Apple.Reynolds, Joyce - Co-author with Jon Postel of RFC1000 and later co-editor of the RFC series with Postel.
Rimmer, Peggie - CERN physicist turned computer scientist. Tim Berners-Lee's boss at CERN when he returned there in 1984.
Rising, Hawley - Member of the BBN eam put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message processors (IMPs)
Ritchie, Dennis - Co-author with Brian Kernighan of the C programming language.
Roberts, Larry - MIT computer scientist hired by Bob Taylor at ARPA to lead the ARPANET project.
Scantlebury, Roger - British computer scientist who worked on the NPL network. It was Scantlebury who presented the NPL project at Gatlinburg in 1967.Scott, Peter - University of Saskatchewan developer who wrote HYTELNET, an early hypertext system for the Internet.
Secret, Arthur - French computer scientist and the Web's virutal librarian. Secret also wrote Agora, a system for getting Web pages by e-mail.
Segal, Ben - CERN computer scientist who introduced the Internet to the laborratory.
Sendall, Mike - CERN physicist turned computer scientist, Sendall ran the laboratory's on-line computing group in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee brought him a proposal for a distriuted information system.
Serre, Christian - Tim Berners-Lee's immediate boss at CERN in 1980.
Shapiro, Elmer - Early designer of the ARPANET's IMP network and unwitting founder of the Network Working Group.
Shipp, William S. Co-founder of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at Brown University.
Sinclair, Clive - British inventor, he built Britain's cheapest personal computers in the 1980s.
Smarr, Larry - Founder of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
Stallman, Richard - Founder of the Free Software Foundation which aims to keep the cooperative spirit of software development alive by developing viable alternatives to commercial software.
Stetner, Heidi - Berkeley graduate student whose dog 'Biff' gave its name to the Unix command for notifying of incoming e-mail.
Sugar, Alan - British entrepreneur and chairman of Amstrad, a company that marketed personal computers in the UK.Suominen, Kati - Member of the 'otherwise' team at the Helsinki University of Technology that developed 'erwise', one of the first Web browsers for Unix.
Suominen, Kati - Member of the 'otherwise' team at the Helsinki University of Technology that developed 'erwise', one of the first Web browsers for Unix.
Sutherland, Ivan - Computer graphics pioneer who was the second Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques of Office (IPTO).
Sydanmaanlakka, Kari - Member of the 'otherwise' team at the Helsinki University of Technology that developed 'erwise', one of the first Web browsers for Unix.
Taylor, Bob - Third Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). Taylor founded the ARPANET project and hired Larry Roberts to run it. Later moved to Xerox PARC.
Thach, Truett - Los Angeles-based employee of BBN who met IMP Number One off the plane.
Thery, Gerard - Head of the French Direction Generale des Telecommunications, founder of the project that led to Minitel.
Thompson, Dave - Software developer who introduced the World Wide Web to NCSA.
Thrope, Marty - Member of the BBN team put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message Processors (IMPs).
Tomlinson, Ray - BBN employee and invetor of e-mail.
Torvalds, Linus - Helsinki Uniersity student who wrote the Linux operating system.
Totic, Aleks - Member of the NCSA Mosaic team who wrote the Macintosh version of Mosaic. Later did the same job at Netscape.
Truscott, Tom - Co-inventor with Jim Ellis and Steve Bellovin of Usenet news.
Turing, Alan - British computer pioneer who worked on code breaking during the Second World War. Later moved onto the National Physical Laboratory to run the ACE project.
van Dam, Andy - Hypertext pioneer. Worked with Ted Nelson at Brown on HES, an early hypertext system, and continued with FRESS.
van Herwijnen, Eric - CERN SGML expert and co-author of the laboratory's CERNDOC documentation system.
Vezza, Al - Associate director of MIT's laboratory for ocmputer science. Vezza handled the MIT end of negotiations leading up to the establishment of W3C.
von Neumann, John - Hungarian mathematician who invented the concept of the stored program computer.
Walden, Dave - Member of the BBN team put together by Frank Heart to build the ARPANET's Interface Message Processors (IMPs)
Wei, Pei - Berkeley geography student who developed the Viola system in his spare time.
Wenninger, Horst - CERN Director involved in the negotiations leading up to the establishment of W3C.
White, Bebo - One of the SLAC WWW Wizards.
Wiegandt, Dietrich - CERN computer scientist whose tinkering with UUCP e-mail and network news led to CERN being a European leader in these fields.
Wiener, Norbert - American pioneer of the field of cybernetics.
Wilkes, Maurice - Cambridge computer pioneer who built the world's first practical stored program computer, the EDSAC.
Wilkinson, Peter - Member of the data communications research group at the NPL.
Wilson, Chris - Member of the NCSAMosaic team who wrote the PC version of Mosaic with Jon Mittelhauser.
Wingfield, Mike - UCLA graduate student who built the hardware interface between IMP Number One and the university's Sigma 7 computer.
Wirth, Niklaus - Swiss computer scientist and programming anguage expert. Inventor of the Pascal language.
Womersley, John Reginald - Founder of the Mathematics Division at the UK National Physical Laboratory.
Wozniak, Steve - Hardware designer. Founded Apple Computer along with Steve Jobs.
Yang, Jerry - Stanford University graduate student, co-founder of Yahoo! with David Filo.
Yankelovich, Nicole - Hypertext developer at Brown. Worked on Internet media.
Zimmermann, Hubert - Member of Louis Pouzin's Cyclades team. Later president of the CCITT's network architecture working group.
Zuse, Konrad - German conputer pioneer. Built the first operational programmable calculator.