CERN hired Berners-Lee as a consultant/software engineer.
While he was there, he decided he needed to write a
database program for his personal use that would allow
him to store and retrieve information through the use of
hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are connections from one document,
or any type of data, to another, which allow that
data to be dynamically organized. An example of this is
the familiar hyperlink on Web sites that, when clicked
upon, takes the user to another Web page. Berners-Lee
wanted his program to use hyperlinks to help him keep
track of the vast array of researchers employed at CERN
and their individual research projects.