London: On March 12, 1989, exactly 27 years ago, a proposal was sent internally at a research company in Switzerland that was about to change the world.

Tim Berners-Lee 

Dubbed Information Management: A proposal, the document was created by a 34-year-old computer scientist called Timothy John ‘Tim’ Berners-Lee and was sent to his boss Mike Sendall.

Sendall’s description of the as ‘vague but exciting’ lead to the development of the World Wide Web (WWW) and ultimately, the internet as we know it today.