History of the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.
The hypertext portion of the Web in particular has an intricate intellectual history; notable influences and precursors include Vannevar Bush's Memex, IBM's Generalized Markup Language,and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu.
The concept of a home-based global information system goes at least as far back as "A Logic Named Joe", a 1946 short story by Murray Leinster, in which computer terminals, called "logics," were in every home. Although the computer system in the story is centralized, the story captures some of the feeling of the ubiquitous information explosion driven by the Web.

1979–1991: Development of the World Wide Web

In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee, an separate specialist at the Western Company for Atomic Analysis (CERN), Swiss, designed ENQUIRE, as a individual information source of individuals and application designs, but also as a way to perform with hypertext; each new web page of details in ENQUIRE had to be connected to an current web page.

In 1984 Berners-Lee came back to CERN, and regarded its issues of details presentation: physicists from all over the globe required to work together, and with no typical devices and no typical demonstration application. He had written a offer in April 1989 for "a huge hypertext information source with entered links", but it produced little attention. His manager, Scott Sendall, motivated Berners-Lee to start applying his program on a recently obtained NeXT work area. He regarded several titles, such as Information Capable, The Information My own (turned down as it abbreviates to TIM, the WWW's creator's name) or My own of Information (turned down because it abbreviates to MOI which is "Me" in French), but resolved on World Extensive Web.

He discovered an passionate collaborator in John Cailliau, who rewrote the offer (published on Nov 12, 1990) and desired sources within CERN. Berners-Lee and Cailliau delivered their concepts to the Western Meeting on Hypertext Technological innovation in Sept 1990, but discovered no providers who could appreciate their perspective of getting married to hypertext with the On the internet.

By Xmas 1990, Berners-Lee had designed all the resources necessary for a operating Web: the HyperText Exchange Method (HTTP) 0.9, the HyperText Markup Terminology (HTML), the first Web internet browser (named WorldWideWeb, which was also a Web editor), the first HTTP hosting server application (later known as CERN httpd), the first web hosting server (http://info.cern.ch), and the first Websites that described the venture itself. The internet browser could accessibility Usenet newsgroups and FTP data files as well. However, it could run only on the NeXT; Nicola Pellow therefore designed a easy written text internet browser that could run on almost any pc known as the Range Method Browser. To motivate use within CERN, Bernd Pollermann put the CERN cellphone listing on the web — formerly customers had to log onto the mainframe to be able to look up contact figures.

According to Tim Berners-Lee, the Web was mainly developed in the Developing 31 at CERN ( 46.2325°N 6.0450°E ) but also at house, in the two homes he resided in during that period (one in Portugal, one in Switzerland).

On Aug 6, 1991, Berners-Lee released a brief conclusion of the Globe Extensive Web venture on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.[10] Now frame also noticeable the first appearance of the Web as a openly available assistance on the On the internet.

The WorldWideWeb (WWW) venture is designed to allow all hyperlinks to be created to any details anywhere. [...] The WWW venture was began to allow great power physicists to work together, details, and certification. We are very enthusiastic about growing the web to other places, and having entrance web servers for other details. Collaborators welcome!" —from Tim Berners-Lee's first message

Paul Kunz from the Stanford Straight line Decrease Middle frequented CERN in Sept 1991, and was fascinated by the Web. He introduced the NeXT application returning to SLAC, where librarian Patricia Addis tailored it for the VM/CMS os on the IBM mainframe as a way to show SLAC’s collection of online documents;[7] this was the first web hosting server outside of Western countries and the first in Northern The united states.[11]

An beginning CERN-related participation to the Web was the parody group Les Horribles Cernettes, whose marketing picture is considered to be among the Internet's first five images.