12 Nov 06 On This day 16 years ago.

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

To:

P.G. Innocenti/ECP, G. Kellner/ECP, D.O. Williams/CN

Cc:

R. Brun/CN, K. Gieselmann/ECP, R.€ Jones/ECP, T.€ Osborne/CN,
P. Palazzi/ECP, N.€ Pellow/CN, B.€ Pollermann/CN, E.M.€ Rimmer/ECP

From:

T. Berners-Lee/CN, R. Cailliau/ECP

Date:

12 November 1990

The attached document describes in more detail a Hypertext project.

HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds
as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides
a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports,
notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose
a simple scheme incorporating servers already available at CERN.

The project has two phases: firstly we make use of existing software
and hardware as well as implementing simple browsers for the user’s
workstations, based on an analysis of the requirements for information
access needs by experiments. Secondly, we extend the application
area by also allowing the users to add new material.

Phase one should take 3 months with the full manpower complement,
phase two a further 3 months, but this phase is more open-ended, and
a review of needs and wishes will be incorporated into it.

The manpower required is 4 software engineers and a programmer, (one
of which could be a Fellow). Each person works on a specific part
(eg. specific platform support).

Each person will require a state-of-the-art workstation , but there
must be one of each of the supported types. These will cost from 10
to 20k each, totalling 50k. In addition, we would like to use commercially
available software as much as possible, and foresee an expense of
30k during development for one-user licences, visits to existing installations
and consultancy.

We will assume that the project can rely on some computing support
at no cost: development file space on existing development systems,
installation and system manager support for daemon software.

powered by performancing firefox