Inspiring talk by the inven­tor of the Internet Sir Tim Berners-Lee:

So, going back to 1989, I wrote a memo sug­gest­ing the global hyper­text sys­tem. Nobody really did any­thing with it, pretty much. But, 18 months later — this is how inno­va­tion hap­pens – 18 months later, my boss said I could do it on the side, as a sort of a play project, kick the tires of a new com­puter we’d got. And so he gave me the time to code it up. So I basi­cally roughed out what HTML should look like,hypertext pro­to­col — HTTP – the idea of URLs — these names for things which started with HTTP. I wrote the code and put it out there.

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