Who Created the World Wide Web?
This blog entry was posted on November 23, 2008.
Most people think of the Internet and the World Wide Web as being the same. They are actually very different. The Internet is the computer network or actually a massive network of computer networks. The World Wide Web or simply “the Web” is the sum of the millions of web pages that reside on the Internet.
A system of interlinked hypertext documents is what makes up the World Wide Web. These documents or web pages can be viewed with a Web browser. Web pages may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, all connected using hyperlinks.
Global Information System
The concept of a global information system has been around long before the World Wide Web was created. In 1959 Isaac Asimov, the famous science fiction writer, wrote about a home-based global information system in his short story “Anniversary”.
A small group of computer scientists successfully linked together 4 university computers together in 1969. These computers communicated by sending packets of data in small bursts. This first network called Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the birth of the future Internet.
World Wide Web Created
The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee. He wrote the first WWW browser-editor and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. Berners-Lee went on to found the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994. Today he currently serves as the director of W3C.
According to Tim Berners-Lee own story ”In 1989, I proposed that a global hypertext space be created in which any network-accessible information could be referred to by a single “Universal Document Identifier” I wrote in 1990 a program called “WorldWideWeb”, a point and click hypertext editor.”
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