INTRODUCTION TO WORLD WIDE WEB

Basic definition- The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,^[2] commonly known as the Web), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

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The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.

The timeline below will give a brief overview on the World Wide Web's development over the decade:

 

 1958

In response to the launch of Sputnik, the U.S. Defense Department established Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which eventually would focus on computer networking and communications technology.

1965

Ted Nelson coined the name hypertext for a complex, changing, indeterminate file structure.

Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory coined the terms packet and packet switching. 

1974

TCP/IP becomes the Internet Protocol Suite.

The term Internet was coined to describe a single global TCP/IP network.

 

1989

British engineer Tim Berners-Lee at CERN wrote "Information Management: A Proposal" and "HyperText and CERN." He proposed what was to become the World Wide Web. 

1990

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML, and a text browser. He used a NeXT computer to write a global hypertext system and create a hypertext graphical user interface (GUI) browser and "what you see is what you get" editor.

He made up the name World Wide Web. Other names considered were Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine.

He established the first successful communication between an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.

The first web page was http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html 

                                        

1995

February

the Web is the main reason for the theme of the G7 meeting hosted by the European Commission in the European Parliament buildings in Brussels (BE).

March

CERN holds a two-day seminar for the European Media (press, radio, TV), attended by 250 reporters, to show WWW. It is demonstrated on 60 machines, with 30 pupils from the local International High School helping the reporters "surf the Web".

April

Third International WWW Conference: "Tools and Applications", hosted by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, in Darmstadt (DE)

June

Founding of the Web Society in Graz (AT), by the Technical University of Graz (home of Hyper-G), CERN, the University of Minnesota (home of Gopher) and INRIA.

                           

 Therefore becoming the world wide web as we know it...

  

 

 

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