good news in history, august 6

good news in history, august 6
good news in history, august 6 34 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee released documents describing his invention of the World Wide Web. The English computer scientist designed and built the first web browser to access the new information management system. His Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) would be used for contacting informational servers anywhere in the world, the first of which was the CERN HTTPd.  READ more…  (1991) He worked at CERN at the time, and his manager called his proposals ‘vague, but exciting’. Later knighted by the Queen, Berners-Lee is currently the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the continued development of the Web. MORE Good News on This Day: Bogota , Colombia was founded (1538) The television comedian Lucille Ball was born (1911) Independence was claimed by  Bolivia (1825) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into US law, aiming to prohibit racial discrimination in voting rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitutio…