World Wide Web:
The Ever Growing Internet Kingdom
Thesis
Tim Berners-Lee
Pre WWW
Creation of WWW
Short Term Impacts
Long Term Impacts
Resources
Creation of WWW
Even though computers may seem like a modern invention, the earliest digital computers may have been made by the 1600’s. However, in the 1830s, the first automatic digital computer had been invented. In the 1930s and 1940s, the first electronic digital computers were being created, and they could do basic calculations. After decades of innovation, there were many computers that were powerful, as well as computers that had the processing capabilities to communicate with each other. After digital computing in the 70's, ARPANET, similar to the World Wide Web, had a goal of making academic and research share data quicker.
After all of these advancements Tim Berners-Lee finally entered the mix. During the late 1980's to the early and mid 1990's, Berners-Lee was asked to create a platform that would allow scientists and institutions around the world to be able to share information with each other easily. This was a high demand for many of those scientists and institutions to spread their information globally.
“In 1980, I wrote a program for keeping track of software with which I was involved in the PS control system. Called Enquire, it allowed one to store snippets of information, and to link related pieces together in any way. To find information, one progressed via the links from one sheet to another”
- Tim Berners-Lee
Lee had finished his first product of the WWW in March of 1991.
Lee's initial Proposal of WWW in March 1980 (1).
First finished product of the WWW by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
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