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Aug. 6, 1991: Just before 3 p.m. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at the CERN physics lab in Geneva, posts with an Internet newsgroup a radical new way to share data by allowing computers to talk to each other. After considering the names "Infomesh" and "Information Mine" for this network, he settles on "WorldWideWeb." So who was Tim Berners-Lee? And what happened two years later that helped the Web take off?
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