The year is 1989 and there's a man named Tim Berners-Lee. Tim looks a lot like a scienc-y, late-career, Bradley Whitford but without the molestache.
Tim was putting together a mix tape of Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, and KISS when when he thought: "I need a better way to share my science-stuff.doc file withe the world." and
BOOM. The Web.