El 6 de agosto de 1991, Tim Berners-Lee escribió el primer mensaje de hipertexto e inició la \”Era Web\”. \”Gaceta Mercantil\” reproduce aquí los primeros párrafos del documento histórico:

In article <1991aug2.115…@ardor.enet.dec.com> kan…@ardor.enet.dec.com (Nari Kannan) writes:Is anyone reading this newsgroup aware of research or development efforts in the following areas:1. Hypertext links enabling retrieval from multiple heterogeneous sources of information?

The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere. The address format includes an access method (=namespace), and for most name spaces a hostname and some sort of path.

We have a prototype hypertext editor for the NeXT, and a browser for line mode terminals which runs on almost anything. These can access files either locally, NFS mounted, or via anonymous FTP. They can also go out using a simple protocol (HTTP) to a server which interprets some other data and returns equivalent hypertext files. For example, we have a server running on our mainframe (http://cernvm.cern.ch/FIND in WWW syntax) which makes all the CERN computer center documentation available. The HTTP protocol allows for a keyword search on an index, which generates a list of matching documents as annother virtual hypertext document.