On 12 March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss, Mike Sendall. "Vague, but exciting", were the words that Sendall wrote on the proposal, allowing Berners-Lee to continue.
-- From "Tim Berners-Lee's Proposal" at CERN
http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html
Coincidentally, my first signon to the PLATO computer system at the University of Illinois in Urbana was created on 12 March 1975
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