“I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful day out.

I relentlessly petitioned #bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (#Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea “a little eccentric” but eventually gave in and let me work on it. I was seized by the idea of combining two pre-existing #computer #technologies: the #internet and #hypertext, which takes an ordinary document and brings it to life by adding “links”.” — Tim Berners-Lee

An idea so big, constant lobbying was required. The constant noise of “Entrepreneurs” changing the world with their ideas, business and money.

TBL gave away the #WWW, for free.

#TimBernersLee / #Hypertext / #HTTP / #RFC1945 / #RFC1866 / #GET <https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free>