Web architecture · 1989 · Tim Berners-Lee
Information Management: A Proposal
Answer organizational information loss with decentralized hypertext, universal references, heterogeneous systems, and incremental adoption.
The central move
Answer organizational information loss with decentralized hypertext, universal references, heterogeneous systems, and incremental adoption.
Why it had to exist
CERN projects, documents, systems, and people changed faster than centralized information systems could track their relationships. Knowledge disappeared at organizational boundaries.
Where it leads
Hypertext plus Internet → Web → open publishing, search, web applications, and platform governance.