new delhi tech giant google is celebrating the 30th birth anniversary of the world wide web with a doodle a british physicist tim bernerslee working for europes physics lab cern proposed a decentralised system of information management on march 12 1989 this led to the birth of world wide web which now used by billions of people across the globeinitially bernerslee envisioned a large hypertext database with typed linksnamed mesh to help his colleagues at cern a large nuclear physics laboratory in switzerland share information amongst multiple computers then lees boss allowed him time to develop the humble flowchart into a working model writing the html language the http application and worldwidewebapp the first web browser and page editor by 1991 the external web servers were up and runningtoday there are nearly 2 billion websites online whether you use it for email homework gaming or checking out videos of cute puppies chances are you cant imagine life without the webjeff jaffe ceo of the world wide web consortium said there are very few innovations that have truly changed everything the web is the most impactful innovation of our timenot to be confused with the internet which had been evolving since the 1960s the world wide web is an online application built upon innovations like html language url addresses and hypertext transfer protocol or