World Wide Web - How Did it Come About?
Indeed, necessity is the mother of invention.
When there is a need and the means of satisfying the same does not exist, man inevitably comes up to the challenge of creating a tool to fill his need.
Such is the very same reason why the World Wide Web (WWW) exists today.
It was nothing more than a response to fill a need.
It was the late 1980's, when an Oxford University physicist-- Tim Berners-Lee, became exasperated with the difficulty of the interchange of information with his peers scattered all over the world.
He was a consultant for the European Organization of Nuclear Research-- known as the CERN Institute in Geneva Switzerland.
He wrote a proposal that he eventually presented to his colleagues; which would later become the basis of the world wide web.
In terms on concept, Berners-Lee was inspired by a historic Victorian-English book called "Enquire Within Upon Everything"-- a novelty how-to guide, which bore information on just almost anything.
From how to kill an earwig, to write for the press, to serve relish for breakfast, or bury a relative-- he saw from the book a web of connections; which he eventually used as a metaphor in creating his proposal.
In 1990, he was joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Ailliau, a fellow-scientist at CERN, in submitting a joint proposal for "HyperText...
to link and access information of various kinds of web nodes...
" This information-dissemination tool went through many name changes, to become the platform for the world wide web.
The following years ushered with them important changes and improvements to the world wide web.
Originally conceptualized and used in the fields of research, science and the academe, the usage of the web has since then multiplied a thousand-fold.
Today the world uses the World Wide Web for just about anything.
It not only provides us with information and the ability to communicate with others (who were previously unreachable).
It now also provides the means to further our businesses, provide us with entertainment, assist us with our research, business or personal promotion, and the improvement of our lives.
The web should not to be confused with the "Internet" which many people often mistakenly assume is another term for the World Wide Web.
While the internet is a network of interconnected networks of computers all over the world, the World Wide Web is a service that is used within the internet for information dissemination.
With every year that passes, the impact of the World Wide Web on businesses, the academe and everyday living has grown and improved; bringing with it all the other needs for newer tools and newer innovations.
When there is a need and the means of satisfying the same does not exist, man inevitably comes up to the challenge of creating a tool to fill his need.
Such is the very same reason why the World Wide Web (WWW) exists today.
It was nothing more than a response to fill a need.
It was the late 1980's, when an Oxford University physicist-- Tim Berners-Lee, became exasperated with the difficulty of the interchange of information with his peers scattered all over the world.
He was a consultant for the European Organization of Nuclear Research-- known as the CERN Institute in Geneva Switzerland.
He wrote a proposal that he eventually presented to his colleagues; which would later become the basis of the world wide web.
In terms on concept, Berners-Lee was inspired by a historic Victorian-English book called "Enquire Within Upon Everything"-- a novelty how-to guide, which bore information on just almost anything.
From how to kill an earwig, to write for the press, to serve relish for breakfast, or bury a relative-- he saw from the book a web of connections; which he eventually used as a metaphor in creating his proposal.
In 1990, he was joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Ailliau, a fellow-scientist at CERN, in submitting a joint proposal for "HyperText...
to link and access information of various kinds of web nodes...
" This information-dissemination tool went through many name changes, to become the platform for the world wide web.
The following years ushered with them important changes and improvements to the world wide web.
Originally conceptualized and used in the fields of research, science and the academe, the usage of the web has since then multiplied a thousand-fold.
Today the world uses the World Wide Web for just about anything.
It not only provides us with information and the ability to communicate with others (who were previously unreachable).
It now also provides the means to further our businesses, provide us with entertainment, assist us with our research, business or personal promotion, and the improvement of our lives.
The web should not to be confused with the "Internet" which many people often mistakenly assume is another term for the World Wide Web.
While the internet is a network of interconnected networks of computers all over the world, the World Wide Web is a service that is used within the internet for information dissemination.
With every year that passes, the impact of the World Wide Web on businesses, the academe and everyday living has grown and improved; bringing with it all the other needs for newer tools and newer innovations.