Fascinating
facts about the invention of the
World Wide Web by Tim
Berners-Lee in 1991. |
WORLD
WIDE WEB |
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| World Wide Web (WWW),
system of resources that enable computer users to view and interact with a variety of
information, including magazine archives, public- and university-library resources,
current world and business news, and software programs. The WWW can be accessed by a
computer connected to an internet, an interconnection of computer networks or through the
public Internet, the global consortium of interconnected computer networks. |
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WWW resources are organized to allow users to move easily from one
resource to another. Users generally navigate through the WWW using an application known
as a WWW browser client. The browser presents formatted text, images, sound, or other
objects, such as hyperlinks, in the form of a WWW page on a computer screen. The user can
click on a hyperlink with the cursor to navigate to other WWW pages on the same source
computer, or server, or on any other WWW server on the network. The WWW links exist across
the global Internet to form a large-scale, distributed, multimedia knowledge base that
relates words, phrases, images, or other information. Smaller-scale implementations may
occur on enterprise internets.
WWW pages are formatted using Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML), and information is transferred among computers on the WWW using a set of
rules known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Other features may be added to web
pages with special programs, such as Java, a programming language that is independent of a
computer's operating system, developed by Sun Microsystems. Java-enabled web browsers use applets
that run within the context of HTML-formatted documents. With applets it is possible to
add animation and greater interactively to web pages.
The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English
computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee to enable information to be shared among
internationally dispersed teams of researchers at the European Laboratory for Particle
Physics (formerly known by the acronym CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland. It subsequently
became a platform for related software development, and the numbers of linked computers
and users grew rapidly to support a variety of endeavors, including a large business
marketplace. Its further development is guided by the WWW Consortium based at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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RELATED INFORMATION:
Tim
Berners-Lee Biography from
The Great Idea Finder
Invention of the Internet
from The Great Idea Finder
Communication History
from The Great Idea Finder
History of
Computing from The Great Idea
Finder
ON THE BOOKSHELF:
Weaving
the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti (Contributor) /
Paperback: 246 pages / HarperBusiness; (2000)
Inventing the
Internet
by Janet Abbate / Paperback: 272 pages / MIT Press; 1st edition (July 31,
2000)
Where Wizards
Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon / Paperback: 304 pages / Touchstone Books,
(January 1998)
How the Web was
Born: The Story of the World Wide Web (Out of print.)
by Robert Cailliau, James Gillies / Paperback: 372 pages
Oxford University Press; (2000)
A Brief History
of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime
by John NaughtonPaperback: 327 pages Overlook Press;1st edition (October 30, 2001)
Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web
by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville / Paperback - 226 pages (March 1998) / O'Reilly &
Associates
From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine
by James M. Nyce (Editor), Paul Kahn (Editor), Vannevar Bush / Hardcover - 367 pages
(January 1992) / Academic Pr
Architects
of the Web: 1,000 Days That Built the Future of Business
by Robert H. Reid / Paperback - 320 pages (March
1999) / John Wiley & Sons
Each chapter examines the Web's business development
through the story of some of its pioneers
ON THE WEB:
A Short History
of the Web
Has told by Tim Berners-Lee.
(URL: www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory)
Tim
Berners-Lee
This is the official site for Tim Berners-Lee. Here you will find his biography, slides
from some talks, essays on web architecture, frequently asked questions, articles, and
more. Sponsered by the World Wide Web Consortium.
(URL: www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html)
World Wide Web Consortium
Leading the Web to its Full Potential.
(URL: www.w3.org)
World
Wide Web
From the Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia.
(URL: encarta.msn.com/)
Woodstock of the Web
The first International WWW Conference, CERN, is held in Geneva on May 25-27, 1994 .
Heavily oversubscribed (800 apply, 400 allowed in): VRML is conceived here.
(URL: www.cern.ch/WWW94/)
Integrating
the Web into Existing Extension and Educational Technology
by R. Daniel Lineberger, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University
(URL: aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/lineberger.html)
WWW Design
Decisions in Perspective
Tim Berners-Lee, December 95: MIT 6.001 Guest lecture
(URL: www.w3.org/Talks/9512-6.001/)
A Brief History
of the Internet
From the Internet Society
(URL: www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml )
Netcraft 2006 Web Survey
In Novenber, 2006 the number of Web site reached a milestone, 100
million Web sites are on the World Wide Web.
(URL: news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html)
DID YOU KNOW:
- The World Wide Web should be spelled as three separate
words, so that its acronym is three separate "W"s. There are no hyphens. You
know that "worldwide" is a word in the dictionary, but World Wide Web is three
words.
- Use "Web" with a capital W to indicate that it is
an abbreviation for "World Wide Web". Hence, "What a tangled web he wove on
his Web site!".
- Often, WWW is written and read as W3, which is quicker to
say. In particular, the World Wide Web consortium is W3C, never WWWC.
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Web Sites Statistics: April 1997 (1 million
sites), February 2000 (10
million), September 2000 (20 million), July 2001 (30 million), April
2003 (40 million), May 2004 (50 million), March 2005 (60 million),
August 2005 (70 million). April 2006 (80 million ) and August 2006
(90 million)., November 2006 (100 million).
- November 2006, the number of Web
pages exceeds 9 Billion.
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