The World Wide Web, commonly known as the Web, is a publicly available information system on the internet. It allows documents to be identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://www.example.com/). They may be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
The internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing: the internet is a huge network of computers; the World Wide Web is a means of accessing and sharing information across it.
English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed and implemented the World Wide Web. While working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva, Switzerland, Berners-Lee became frustrated with the inefficiencies and difficulties posed by finding information stored on different computers. He published a formal proposal on November 12, 1990 to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" (one word) as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers". Berners-Lee chose the name "World Wide Web" because he wanted to emphasize that, in this global hypertext system, anything could link to anything else.
The NeXT Computer below was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server
Alternative names for the World Wide Web that Berners-Lee considered included "Information Mesh," which he discarded as it looked too much like "Information Mess."
Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN. The browser was released outside CERN in 1991, first to other research institutions starting in January 1991. On August 6, 1991, the web went live, with the first page explaining how to search and how to set up a site.
A Universal Unitarian, Berners-Lee gave his invention to the world for free. He declared that he wanted to make the web available for the whole world in the same way his church is available to the whole world.
Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was the first widely-used web browser. It was first released on January 23, 1993 and was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web.
The internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing: the internet is a huge network of computers; the World Wide Web is a means of accessing and sharing information across it.
English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee developed and implemented the World Wide Web. While working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva, Switzerland, Berners-Lee became frustrated with the inefficiencies and difficulties posed by finding information stored on different computers. He published a formal proposal on November 12, 1990 to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" (one word) as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers". Berners-Lee chose the name "World Wide Web" because he wanted to emphasize that, in this global hypertext system, anything could link to anything else.
The NeXT Computer below was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server
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Alternative names for the World Wide Web that Berners-Lee considered included "Information Mesh," which he discarded as it looked too much like "Information Mess."
Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN. The browser was released outside CERN in 1991, first to other research institutions starting in January 1991. On August 6, 1991, the web went live, with the first page explaining how to search and how to set up a site.
A Universal Unitarian, Berners-Lee gave his invention to the world for free. He declared that he wanted to make the web available for the whole world in the same way his church is available to the whole world.
Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
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| Tim Berners-Lee By John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, photo by Scott Henrichsen |
Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was the first widely-used web browser. It was first released on January 23, 1993 and was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web.
In 1994 a camera was trained upon a lonely fish tank within the as yet unknown company Netscape. It transmitted live images of the fish tank to the emerging new landscape known as the World Wide Web. It was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence.
As the web's popularity quickly accelerated, the church began to look into ways in which it could utilize it to preach the Gospel. In 1997 the first virtual Christian church, the International Church of the Web was founded and by the end of the decade churches were beginning to develop their own websites. By the middle of the 2000s a surfer could access audio and video sermons or even embark on their own Bible College course, all via the net.
The initial version of the Firefox web browser was released by the Mozilla Organization on September 23, 2002. It was originally called Phoenix, but was renamed to Firefox shortly before its release. Firefox quickly became popular with users for its speed, security, and add-ons. It is now one of the most popular web browsers in the world.
The first Internet Evangelism Day was held in April 2005.
Seven people across the world hold keycards with the power to restart the World Wide Web in the event of a catastrophic event. Out of these seven, only five are needed to come together at a secure location in the United States to put together the DNSSEC root key from the fractioned code.
The blink tag in html was first implemented by drunk Netscape engineers as a joke.
It takes longer to say "www" than it does to say "World Wide Web" because of all the syllables.
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