Happy Birthday World Wide Web!

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In nineteen ninety-one
on a sunny August day
A man named Tim Berners-Lee
had something new to say

He worked at CERN,
a place where scientists explore
The mysteries of nature
from the atom to the core

He had a brilliant idea,
a vision in his head
Of a system that could link
all the information ever said

He called it the World Wide Web
a catchy little name
And he posted the first web page
and nothing was the same

The web was like a spider’s web
but made of bits and bytes
It connected people and computers
across the world with sites

You could click on words or pictures,
and find more things to see
You could learn about anything
from art to history

The web was also fun and free
a playground for the mind
You could make your own web pages
and share them with mankind

You could chat with friends and strangers
and join communities
You could play games and watch videos
and listen to CDs

The web was a revolution
a wonder and a wonder 
It changed the way we communicate, 
and think and work, and ponder

It opened up new possibilities
for good and bad alike
It gave us all a voice
a choice, a chance
to make our mark

The web is still evolving
growing bigger every day
But we should not forget
the man who started it this way

He gave us all a gift
a lift, a tool to make our lives better
He is Tim Berners-Lee
the World Wide Web’s inventor

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