William Caxton was sure that the printing press he’d bought was a great idea. But he didn’t realise that it would change the world. Five hundred years later, in 1989, Tim Berners Lee had an idea.

Tim Berners-Lee was a researcher there, and he thought he had a way to help organize information on the network. His solution was based on a program he had written in 1980 called "Enquire-Within ...