Origins of the world wide web

World Wide Web Origin - Timeline

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Tim Berners-Lee began the World Wide Web in 1989, almost 20 years after the internet was created through the world's first inter-computer connection. Tim was a scientist at CERN laborites, and was often faced with difficulties trying to exchange his data and fellow scientists without having to travel long distances to do so. He proposed a method of linking all information present in the internet to each other through a giant "web" of data, to his superiors at CERN. Though they originally rejected the idea, Tim kept on pushing, and by 1990, he had developed the three fundamental technologies that have formed the foundation of the modern Web. These technologies are: HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), which forms the backbone of publishing things on the Web and linking websites together, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which assigns a unique "address" to every single resource on the web, and HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), which allows you to access any resource in the entire Web from any other resource in the Web. In addition to these three technologies, Tim also created the first Web page browser (which you can access from the home page) and the first web server (HTTPD). By 1991, the Web had already attracted the attention of several companies and investors outside of CERN. However, there was still much to be dome before it cold become the technological marvel we know and love today.