29th - History of web

29/07/2015

/ A Brief History of Web / 

The Web (or internet) was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, whom graduated from Oxford University and was hired into CERN as a software engineer. Many of his colleagues had great trouble sharing documents and information between each other, most of the issues being logging into computers locally to pick up a file rather than it being sent. Sir Tim Berners-Lee devised a plan to interlink all computers into a technological web (hence the name). In 1989, his first propositions for the idea were not accepted at first,his superiors found the idea "Vague but exciting" but gave him personal time to work on the project (The project not an official CERN project).

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

By October 1990, Tim had written about the webs main three fundamental technologies which we know today as:
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1. HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The markup (formatting) language for the Web.
2. 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.
3. HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the Web.

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The first Web Page was made open on the growing Internet, and in 1991, people outside of the offices of CERN were able to access the Web and its growing community.