story-of-web

The story of web

Some thoughts :

Today (12 ^th of february,2019) is the 30 ^th aniversary of World Wide Web. This code is just to remember the amazing stuff that has been possible because of the web. And some of the amazing info about World Wide Web.
I hope you will like it !

what is WWW ?

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web. Web is the global information system.

History :

Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a global hyperlinked information system became a possibility by the second half of the 1980s. By 1985, the global Internet began to proliferate in Europe and the Domain Name System (upon which the Uniform Resource Locator is built) came into being. In 1988 the first direct IP connection between Europe and North America was made and Berners-Lee began to openly discuss the possibility of a web-like system at CERN.

While working at CERN, Berners-Lee became frustrated with the inefficiencies and difficulties posed by finding information stored on different computers. On March 12, 1989, he submitted a memorandum, titled "Information Management: A Proposal", to the management at CERN for a system called "Mesh" that referenced ENQUIRE, a database and software project he had built in 1980, which used the term "web" and described a more elaborate information management system based on links embedded in readable text: "Imagine, then, the references in this document all being associated with the network address of the thing to which they referred, so that while reading this document you could skip to them with a click of the mouse."
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Some interesting facts :

The World Wide Web (or simply the Web) and Internet are not the same things though we have a tendency of using them interchangeably (as we did in the opening paragraph). Web refers to collection of animations, digital photos, files, music, text pages etc. The Internet on the other hand refers to networking infrastructure responsible for connecting millions of computers and other devices all over the world. Thus, Web is essentially a subset of Internet.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist and engineer wrote a proposal in 1989 that eventually became the World Wide Web.

The first ever website to go online is still online. It can be found Here . This website was built in 1991.

There are more devices in this world that are connected to the Internet than there are number of human beings living on Earth.

The Mosaic was world’s first graphical web browser and was developed by a team at University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing applications.

. The first image to be ever uploaded on the Web was of CERN house band known as Les Horribles Cernettes. That photo was uploaded in 1992.

End card :

In the end,I would only say, Thanks a lot for reading it till the end.
Keep learning,keep innovating!

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