History of the Web

The World Wide Web has globalized Knowledge Representation. So how is the web evolving?
A brief history from 1945 to 1995 is available at the W3C site. From this page --
Sir TimBl's ideas on the Semantic Web dates back to 1994 and even earlier. Slides available here. A snippet from this presentation:
"For example, a document might describe a person. The title document to a house describes a house and also the ownership relation with a person.

Adding semantics to the web involves two things: allowing documents which have information in machine-readable forms, and allowing links to be created with relationship values. Only when we have this extra level of semantics will we be able to use computer power to help us exploit the information to a greater extent than our own reading."

A slide from his talk: