Worried about defending the Internet? Blame Timothy Berners-Lee. He made it worth defending. In 1989, the journeyman consultant and software engineer submitted a proposal to CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

It envisioned a decentralized network that would link different computers, even ones using different software, to find and share information no matter where they were — via the Internet.

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