Based on the research,the world first website known as World Wide Web (WWW) was created by 60-year-old British computer scientist Tim Berners Lee in 1990,while he was a researcher at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the website still exists today.
The reason Tim Bernes Lee created the website was allowed electronic documents on the internet to be easily searched and shared.He found it frustrating that in those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it.Sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer. This is because people at CERN came from universities all over the world, they brought with them all types of computers. Not just Unix, Mac and PC: there were all kinds of big mainframe computer and medium sized computers running all sorts of software.
In March 1989, Tim laid out his vision for what would become the web in a document called “Information Management: A Proposal”. Believe it or not, Tim’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. In fact, his boss at the time, Mike Sendall, noted the words “Vague but exciting” on the cover. The web was never an official CERN project, but Mike managed to give Tim time to work on it in September 1990. He began work using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products.
By October of 1990, Tim Bernes Lee had written the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s web:
- HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The markup (formatting) language for the web.
- URI: Uniform Resource Identifier. A kind of “address” that is unique and used to identify to each resource on the web. It is also commonly called a URL.
- HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web
He also coded the first browser which doubled up as the first HTML editor. Perhaps more importantly, he and fellow collaborator Robert Cailliau came up with the name World Wide Web (rather than Mine of Information or Information Mesh which were apparently in the shortlist).
The first site back online was the picture below:
As the web began to grow, Tim realised that its true potential would only be unleashed if anyone, anywhere could use it without paying a fee or having to ask for permission.
What is World Wide Web
The second document may itself contain links to further documents. The reader need not know where the referenced documents are, because they will be obtained and presented as they are needed.World-Wide Web uses hypertext over the Internet: the linked documents may be located at different Internet sites. WWW can handle different text formats and different methods of organizing information.
The World-Wide Web also provides access to many of the other tools described in this guide, and is becoming widely used as the major means of access to Internet resources.Special index documents have been created in the WWW information space and these can be searched for given keyword(s). The result is a new document which contains links to documents selected from the index.
Who can use World Wide Web
You must be on the international TCP/IP network (the Internet) in order to use a client on your computer to access WWW. If you are on the Internet, but don't have a WWW client on your computer, you can still enter the World-Wide Web because several sites offer public interactive access to WWW clients
If you have e-mail access only, or if you are not on the Internet, then you can not fully exploit the vast potential of WWW. However, a mail-robot is available at the address: listserv@info.cern.ch which gives e-mail access to WWW-accessible files.
Users access the World-Wide Web facilities via a client called a browser, which provides transparent access to the WWW servers. If a local WWW client is not available on your computer, you may use a client at a remote site: this can be an easy way to start using WWW.
Local clients
Use of a local client is encouraged since it will provide better performance and better response time than a remote client.Public domain clients for accessing WWW servers are available for: Macintosh, MS-DOS, VMS, VM/CMS, MVS, NeXT, Unix, X-Windows. All these platforms support a simple line mode browser. In addition, graphical clients are available for: Macintosh, Windows, X-Windows, NeXT and Unix. See the list of freely available client software in Appendix A.
Remote clients
To access a remote WWW client, telnet to the client site. If you are new to WWW, you should telnet to info.cern.ch. No login is needed for this, and you will immediately enter the WWW line mode browser.Some publicly accessible clients have been locally developed. Most remote clients are at sites with WWW servers holding information on specific areas. Telnet to the client site, and at the login: prompt enter www; no password is needed. The following remote client sites are available:
+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Site Country Server Specialization | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | info.funet.fi Finland | | www.huji.ac.il Israel Environment | | info.cern.ch Switzerland (CERN) High-energy physics | | fatty.law.cornell.edu USA Law | | www.cc.ukans.edu USA History | | www.njit.edu USA | +------------------------------------------------------------------+Using CERN as the entry point you will find information about WWW itself, with an overview of the Web and a catalogue of the databases sorted by subject.
Reference Link:
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/12061803/The-worlds-first-website-went-online-25-years-ago-today.html
- https://www.itproportal.com/2011/08/06/first-website-launched-20-years-ago/
- https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
- https://interestingengineering.com/sir-tim-berners-lee-who-invented-world-wide-web
- https://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/www.htm
