WebDAV began in 1996 when [[Jim Whitehead (professor)|Jim Whitehead]] worked with the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) to host two meetings to discuss the problem of [[collaborationCollaborative editing|distributed authoring]] on the [[World Wide Web]] with interested people.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1996AprJun/0002.html|title= Proposed agenda for San Mateo Meeting|year= 1996}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1996JulSep/0095.html|title= Brief mtg. summary|year= 1996}}</ref> [[Tim Berners-Lee]]'s original vision of the Web involved a [[Data storage device|medium]] for both reading and writing. In fact, Berners-Lee's first [[web browser]], called [[WorldWideWeb]], could both view and edit [[web page]]s; but, as the Web grew, it became a read-only medium for most users. Whitehead and other like-minded people wanted to transcend that limitation.<ref>{{cite web
