Twenty-five years ago Sir Tim Berners-Lee was working at a physics laboratory at CERN, in Switzerland, when he came up with a proposal for the World Wide Web.
Since then the web has become a system used across the world to allow people to share and access information.
A selection of people whose lives have been transformed or influenced by the web explain what it has meant to them.
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| Sir Tim Berners-Lee talks about the future of his invention - the world wide web. |
Quarter of a century after his proposal for the world wide web was put forward could Sir Tim Berners-Lee have had any idea how his creation would turn out?
"No idea at all.
"It was really important that it could have anything on it, but the idea that it would end up with almost everything on it - that seemed like a crazy idea at the time.
"As to making lots of money? If I'd made it something which was a proprietary system then it would not have taken off. The only reason it took off is because people were prepared to invest in it because it's open and free.
"There were all kinds of names at the start: the Mine of Information, which would have been MOI; or TIM, The Information Mine.
"The word 'World' was global, which was important. And 'Web'? Mathematically it's a web and gives the "impression that you can connect anything to anything.
"'WWW' didn't trip off the tongue for people in other countries but it was an acronym no-one else had used."
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