Twenty years ago this month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, while working at Cern, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, proposed a system that would manage information about its experiments and enable people to work together through a web of hypertext documents.

Sir Tim called his idea “Mesh” – he coined the term “World Wide Web” a year later. Business schools were not alone in taking a while to exploit the technology, but, 20 years on, the web has become an integral part of the programmes they offer and of the overall experience for students. There is more to come, too – emerging web technologies will further enrich online education.