1989 - 1994
Era II: Document Sharing
BlueprintsFoundational1991
HTTP: The Protocol That Delivered the Web
Tim Berners-Lee's simple request-response protocol turned the internet into a global hypertext system.
Power ToolsFoundational1993
CGI: The First Dynamic Web
A simple standard let web servers run programs instead of just serving files — turning static pages into interactive applications and opening the door to everything that followed.
VaultFoundational1994
SSL/TLS: Securing the Web
Netscape needed online shopping to work. That meant encrypting HTTP — so two engineers built the protocol that now protects every connection on the internet.
BlueprintsFoundational1994
The URL: Addressing Everything
Berners-Lee's third invention gave every resource on earth a single, stable name — and turned the web from a collection of documents into a navigable space.