1991: Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is working at CERN on a NeXTSTEP workstation when he discovers that the computer programmers in his office had once again wrapped his car in plastic wrap. Determined to get his ultimate revenge, Berners-Lee invents a new computing platform that requires three different languages to make one program, interprets these languages differently on different machines, and puts the critical controls over the runtime environment out of the programmer’s direct control.

Web development is born.