The Creation of the World Wide Web
From shopping to paying bills to connecting with friends, the millions of pages in the World Wide Web make it possible to do just about anything. It is hard to believe it only became a reality about two decades ago.
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at the European High-Energy Particle Physics lab in Switzerland, is credited with creating the World Wide Web. In 1989, he proposed new technology that he believed would allow physicists and researchers from all over the world to share documents and information. He called it the "World Wide Web." It was based on the American Advanced Research Projects Agency network, created in the 1970s to share research data, which had developed such features as Internet Protocol.
World Wide Web
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In the proposal, Berners-Lee shared his vision for a Web that would allow users to link directly to text within a document and jump from document to document using clickable buttons. His web had three parts: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and a Web browser. The vision became reality on Christmas Day 1990 when the first successful communication took place. It was first revealed to the public in 1991. He formed the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994, which opened the Web to the masses.
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Mosaic Web Browser
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By 1992, more than 50 Web servers were in place at research facilities and universities. In 1993, a college student named Marc Andreesen developed a Web browser called "Mosiac," the first to introduce images which helped increase the popularity of the Web.
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