Building the Web

In 1990, the first incarnation of the web was created by Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and others at CERN.
Berners-Lee and his crew wanted a system that could share multimedia data rather than just text.
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
  - Allows web developers to present text in a non-linear fashion.
- HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  - guides the exchange of information between web servers and web browsers.
- URL - Uniform Resource Locator
  - Address format that specifies both the type of application protocol being used and the address of the computer that has the desired data.
  - Can refer to a variety of protocols, not just HTTP, so web browsers could refer to older Internet sevices such as FTP, Gopher and WAIS.
CERN
- First version of Web software instantly catches on with CERN.
Personal computers were introduced in the 1980s and taught the skills necessary for using the World Wide Web to every day Americans in the 1990s.
"For non-expert users in particular, the Internet-based Web represented the convergence of personal computing and networking." (Janet Abbate)

Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web