A World Wide Web
August 1 was World
Wide Web Day. The World Wide Web (WWW) was conceived in 1989 at the CERN lab in
Geneva, Switzerland, as a way for scientists to share knowledge. Here are some
early facts about
WWW
HOW IT BEGAN
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
While working at CERN, he wrote the code for WWW using a NeXT computer, to
share documents among researchers across the world using hyperlinks. About 4
billion people use the internet today.
FIRST WEBSITE
The world’s first website, at CERN, went online on
August 6, 1991. Only Berners-Lee and his colleagues had browsers and so the
world was not aware of the development. Today, about 1.9 billion websites are
online.
FIRST IMAGE
Berners-Lee uploaded the first image to the internet,
in 1992. It was of Les Horribles Cernettes, a parody pop band founded by CERN
employees.
INTERNET IS NOT WWW
The internet is a massive network of networks that
connects millions of computers globally. The WWW is the most widely used system
to access the internet. The web is just one of the many services that uses the
internet, others being email and internet telephony.
SURFING THE NET
Jean Armour Polly, a librarian, is credited with
coining the term surfing the web. In March 1992, the master in library science
had already published an article called “Surfing the Internet” in the
University of Minnesota Wilson Library Bulletin.
FIRST EMAIL
The first network email was sent by computer engineer
Ray Tomlinson in 1971. The email to himself said “something like QWERTYUIOP”.
It was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers
that was the precursor to the internet.
DEEP, DARK WEB
The queries that you search for are just a minuscule
percentage of the internet and is often referred to as the ‘Surface Web’. The
remaining part is called ‘Deep Web’ and it is much larger than the Surface Web.
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