Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. Now here on the BBC World Service witness history with me Louis Adalgo and today we look back at one of the great inventions of history.

The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by a young British computer scientist called Tim Berners-Lee.

I've been talking to fellow computer scientist Ben Siegel and Jean-Francis-Groff

who worked with Tim Berners-Lee at the European Scientific Research Center,

CERN, and helped him realize his vision.

It's a new medium, it allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

It allows people to exist in an information space which doesn't know geographical boundaries.

The impact of Tim Berners-Lee's creation has been compared to the invention of the printing press,

connecting the world and us in a way that wasn't possible before and changing our lives forever.

So my hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet because

it'll make communication between different countries more possible.

He put things together, which had never been put together before and it was just him.

It was just a one man, a genius performance.

He had both the vision and the capacity to implement the vision and that is extremely rare.

When he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee was a relatively lowly computer scientist at Cern in Geneva.

Cern employs some of the most preeminent physicists in the world

working on the big questions.

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