World Wide Web
1989
Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web at CERN.
- Type
- Event
- Date
- 1989
- Place
- Geneva, Switzerland
Who was alive during World Wide Web
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992, geneticist
- Akira Kurosawa 1910–1998, director
- Arthur Miller 1915–2005, playwright
- Akio Morita 1921–1999, electronics entrepreneur
- Alfredo Di Stéfano 1926–2014, footballer
- Arnold Palmer 1929–2016, golfer
- Audrey Hepburn 1929–1993, actress
- Ali al-Sistani 1930–, ayatollah
- Amartya Sen 1933–, economist
- 14th Dalai Lama 1935–, Buddhist leader
- Bernie Madoff 1938–2021, fraudster
- Aretha Franklin 1942–2018, singer
- Barış Manço 1943–1999, musician
- Aziz Sancar 1946–, biochemist
- Angela Merkel 1954–, chancellor
- Bill Gates 1955–, entrepreneur
- Ai Weiwei 1957–, artist
- Aliko Dangote 1957–, industrialist
- Ayrton Senna 1960–1994, racing driver
- Barack Obama 1961–, US president
- Banksy c. 1974–, street artist
- Anna Kournikova 1981–, tennis player
- Beyoncé 1981–, musician
- Adele 1988–, singer