Sunday, January 21, 2007

The History of the Web

The World Wide Web is now popular and is widely used all over the world. However, the history of the Web is not long. Tim Berners-Lee invented WWW in March 1989 at CERN [1]. It was first developed as a common presentation method for physicists from around the world to share data [2]. He introduced the HTTP protocol and also the HTML file format for hyper-text transferring and presentation [3, 4]. The first Website on the Web was http://info.cern.ch/. At first there were only several Websites, but now there are a lot of them. Nowadays people around the world surf on the Internet to visit those Websites every day.
Why did the Web develop so quickly? I think it is mainly because of people’s high information demand. The Web provides a method using which people can share information on a global scale. As the invention and development of Web 2.0, I think the information sharing could be more convenient and the Web will be hotter than ever before.

[1] http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

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