The World Wide Web, the cornerstone of our digital lives, wasn’t initially conceived for email or social media. Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, envisioned it as a tool to help scientists seamlessly share research. Back in the late 1980s, information sharing between researchers was cumbersome and inefficient.

Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, developed the web as a centralized system where researchers could easily access and share data, documents, and research findings.

This pioneering system, built on hypertext links and web browsers, ultimately revolutionized communication and information access, transforming into the global phenomenon we know today.

Prompt:
Think of a technological breakthrough so unexpected, it changed our world but rarely gets mentioned. What was this invention and what profound impact did it have?