Some British dude who lives in
Massachusetts invented
the World Wide Web
in Switzerland in 1990

About twenty years ago, some nerd was a software consultant in Switzerland... and now you know the rest of the story. Good day.

Oh wait! Don’t go! There’s more to this fascinating tale. That man’s name was Tim Berners-Lee. He was born in London on June 8, 1955. There, he was raised by his parents, as is the custom in most foreign countries. His parents were also a couple of geeks and they met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, which was the first commercially available computer. So romantic I think I might friggin puke.

Any-how-ways, sometime in the late 1970’s, after years of disappointing his parents and wasting his life away by graduating from Queen’s College at Oxford and building robots out of cereal boxes and television sets, Tim took a job in Geneva, Switzerland at some two-bit, fly-by-night outfit called the European Particle Physics Laboratory. B-o-o-r-ing!

Then in 1989, Lord Nutcase came up with this crackpot idea to invent a way for information to be stored on a network, and for documents to be connected to each other by randomly associated links. He had this psychotic idea that computer documents could be created to access stuff the way the brain does. Like, any particular thing in any document could be linked to any other related thing in any other document. Does that make sense? Basically, this guy was a total square and had absolutely no interest in beer or the Miss Hawaiian Tropic contest.

Well, soon enough, he runs this mess by his boss, Mr. Sendall (also a foreigner), to try to get the old man to pay for him to tinker around all day on somebody else’s dime. And to make a long story short, his boss must’ve also been a little nuts - or at least on the sauce - and stumbled in the office one day muttering, “Tim, you old such-n-such, I been thinkin’ about that shit you were rattlin’ on about the other day.”

Tim was captivated. Could this be the break he was looking for? He excitedly responded, “Yes, boss? And? And?” Mr. Sendall continued, slurring his words, “Well, Tim, I must also be a little nuts - or at least on the sauce - but I’m gonna give your nerdy ass the go ahead.”

After getting the okay from his boss - and while the rest of the world was working on useful computer programs like Fishing Derby 3D - Tim started working away on a little program called World Wide Web. Yeah, I never heard of it either.