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The surprising story of how Steve Jobs helped create the World Wide Web

09
Jun
2014

Steve Jobs will be remembered for a shocking number of accomplishments, and now he have learned of yet another feather we can put in the late Apple co-founder’s cap: Steve Jobs helped create the World Wide Web. During a recent interview at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, former CERN software engineer and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee shared a fascinating story that was recently picked up by Business Insider. Berners-Lee was trying to figure out how to bring together research stored on different computers running different operating systems that were scattered across the globe. “All these systems looked different but in fact you’re reading stuff on a screen and sometimes clicking on bits,” he thought to himself. “So you could imagine a thin layer which

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