That engineer was Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and his proposal was the beginning of the World Wide Web. To mark the 30th anniversary of Berners-Lee’s pitch, Google created a doodle for its homepage.

Yes, Flight Doodle makes the web virtually obsolete ... the custom balloons of other players are faded into the background, marking the most recent high scores in real-time!

The World Wide Web was invented 30 years ago, and we’re grateful every day that it was. So is Google, which is celebrating the anniversary with a Doodle that hearkens back to a simpler time.

It was on that day that Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of what we've come to call the World Wide Web. And so Google has decided to celebrate in classic Google style: with a Doodle. The Doodle ...

The doodles that spice up Google’s plain white home page keep getting more elaborate. Web users awoke Monday to find an animated doodle atop Google’s search page that commemorates the 107th ...

Everyone’s pondering why. We think we know. It’s about the future of Web tech, with no apologies to Adobe’s aging Flash. Google’s doodles normally celebrate a special national or ...

The Doodle "Children's Day Bangladesh" is being displayed on its homepage featuring the search giant's logo with coloured animations of flowers, plants and insects on a background where children are ...

Google has released no clues for the reasoning behind the doodle. Usually such designs are created to mark and event or an anniversary. A Google spokeswoman was unavailable for comment on Tuesday.

It was on that day that Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of what we've come to call the World Wide Web. And so Google has decided to celebrate in classic Google style: with a Doodle.