'China's Father of the Internet' tracks the changes

Professor Xu Rongsheng was responsible for the first Web page in China, which had the address www.ihep.ac.cn and was called "China Window". It's still up and running, though the link now migrates to the home page of the Institute of High Energy Physics, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Xu, an unassuming gentleman with a beguiling sense of humor, said the "Father of the Internet" Tim Berners-Lee taught him how to create a Web page when he visited CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1994.

"He gave me his small office and in it were all his published works. He explained to me the name 'World Wide Web' was used instead of 'World Wide Net' because it was easier to remember," said the man who is arguably "China's Father of the Internet".