In the late 1980s at CERN, researchers used different computers and systems that couldn’t talk to each other. Nothing connected. So Berners-Lee asked a simple question: what if every document and computer could link together and be accessed through a browser? That idea became HTML, HTTP, and
URLs the foundation of the World Wide Web. He didn’t invent the internet, he invented the part that made it usable for everyone.
Then came the decision that changed history. CERN asked if they should patent it and charge companies. Berners-Lee refused. He believed the web had to be open and free to reach its potential. So he gave it away.
If he took even a 0.01% royalty, he’d be richer than Musk and Bezos combined. Instead, he chose an internet that belonged to everyone and the world changed forever.
Source:Lovinghananews.com
