Globally, the internauts today and World Word Web (WWW) are celebrating this outstanding technology that technically brings the internauts together just by a click of a button.
The WWW was launched on August 23, 1991, 25 years ago, and has since then gained popularity publicly, creating the backbone of all communications.
The information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another was designed and deployed by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland, and gave rise to the internet that we use today.
However, the internet and Word Wide Web cannot be used interchangeably.
The internet was first connected in 1969 and it refers to the network that carries information between nodes. On the other hand, the World Wide Web refers to space on this network where information, such as web pages and documents, are stored.
In 1980, Berner-Lee had created a personal database of people and software models at CERN and deployed the use of hypertext, where each page linked to another, already existing page. Over the next decade, he would develop this further, and in 1989 proposed the idea of “a universal linked information system” to help physicists collaborate, combining the internet with hypertext.
Over the next decade, he developed this further, and in 1989 proposed the idea of “a universal linked information system” to help physicists collaborate, combining the internet with hypertext.
In 1990, he built the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the HyperText Markup Language (HTML, Uniform Resource Identifier (or URL); the first web browser and server; and the first web pages.
The very first web page went live on August 6, 1991; and was only available to users at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
The first web page was a short page explaining what the World Wide Web actually was.
And now came August 23, 1991, new users outside of CERN were invited to join the web, marking its official anniversary, or Internaut Day.