How the web was started

Sir Tim Berners–Lee lived near Clapham railway junction when he was a boy. Seeing the complex inter–connections of tracks, he claims, shaped his future thinking. Even to the point of influencing his invention of the world wide web.

His school “was sandwiched between the railway tracks and we watched trains go by all day. That’s all the web is really, but in a virtual way.”

I will return in future articles to this phenomenon of how the physical world provides the mental building blocks for internal mental models. It’s certainly what Sir Tim described as happening in a Radio Times interview.

He also reported how it took a Graphic Organiser to persuade others of the power of his proposal. He called it a memo but as you see it’s mostly a concept map with a tree diagram embedded within it.