World Wide Web
audiovisual digital
digital media
platform
core
Lifetime Path
planned
Creators
- Tim Berners-Lee, creator
- CERN, institutional origin context
Canon Rationale
A core digital-history and information-infrastructure record, included as a bounded source-study unit around Berners-Lee's proposal, the first web system, and W3C/CERN historical documentation rather than as open-ended web use.
Path
Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 61.
Evidence
- institutional list: W3C, 'A Little History of the World Wide Web'.
- institutional list: CERN, 'The birth of the Web'.
Audit Flags
access preservation required, epistemic status required
Completion unit: read Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 web proposal and a short W3C/CERN web-history unit; do not treat open-ended web browsing as completion.