E-PR
Kemunculan E-PR tidak bisa dipisahkan dari perkembangan kehumasan itu sendiri. Mulai dari munculnya humas pertama kali yang dicetuskan oleh Bapak Komunikasi Ive Ledbetter, yang mampu menanggulangi krisis industri batu bara di Amerika hingga konsep PR atau humas modern menyebar dengan cepat ke seluruh Amerika dan akhirnya seluruh dunia, termasuk Indonesia.
Tim Berners-Lee
Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential Tim Berners-Lee (Foreword), Dieter Fensel (Editor), James Hendler (Editor), Henry Lieberman (Editor), Wolfgang Wahlster (Editor) (The MIT Press, 2005) ISBN 0-262-56212-X Weaving the Web: Origins and Future of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (Texere Publishing, 1999) ISBN 0-7528-2090-7 The World Wide Web (WWW) is so ubiquitous that it seems strange to think that it has only been around for a few years. Indeed, use of the WWW became widespread in the mid 1990's, but its beginnings can actually be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman who had recently graduated from Oxford, landed a temporary contract job as a software consultant at CERN ( the famous European Particle physics Laboratory in Geneva). He wrote a program, called Enquire, which he called a "memory substitute," for his personal use to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab (Wright, 64). This was a very helpful tool since CERN was (and still is) a large international organization involving a multitude of researchers located around the world. ()