The World Wide Web was the vision of one man, Tim Berners-Lee. In 1980 he started work at CERN, the European particle physics lab in Geneva. From there he developed the early principles of the web and how it would work. How one hypertext document would link to another external hypertext document that could be held on the same system or one on the other side of the world, with this as the basis the web could expand globally with documents linking to any other document, with no central database holding any of the pages for the web. |
Tim began developing a browser, editor, a web server and the HTTP protocol. In the early years people had a hard time in seeing the point in the web, the Internet was already in place for sharing information and data and the computer community were happy with it, but now the web has changed the way that alot of people live and work. |
For the full story on the History of the web, Tim Berners-Lee has written a book titled "Weaving the Web". An excellent read and available from Amazon.
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