Screen Based Communication 2

I found a brilliant website for software tutorials, this one in particular is for Web Tutorials: www.webdesign.tutsplus.com. For my latest project, I’ve decided I need to look at the beginning, and find out how the World Wide Web has got to where it is today.

This article can be found from www.webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/industry-trends/a-brief-history-of-the-world-wide-web/ and walks through how the World Wide Web began.

Research into the History Of Web, Sir Tim Berners Lee:

The excecution of the we came around in 1980 when an English chap by the name of Tim Berners Lee was working on a project known as ‘Enquire’. Enquire was a simple database of people and software who were working at the same place as Berners Lee. It was during this project that he experimented with hypertext. Hypertext is text that can be displayed on devices which utilize hyperlinks. The Berners Lee Enquire system used hyperlinks on each page of the database, each page referencing other relevant pages within the system. Berners Lee was a physicist and found out that there was no quick and easy solution for doing so for sharing information quickly. In 1989 he set about putting a proposal together for a centralized database which contained links to other documents. This would have been the perfect solution for Tim and his colleagues, but it turned out nobody was interested in it and nobody took any notice – except for one person. Tim’s boss liked his idea and encouraged him to implement it in their next project. This new system was given a few different names and after a few suggestions, there was only one name that stuck; the World Wide Web.

By December 1990 Tim had joined forces with another physicist Robert Cailliau who rewrote Tim’s original proposal. It was their vision to combine hypertext with the internet to create web pages, but no one at that time could appreciate how successful this idea could be.

Despite little interest, Berners Lee continued to develop three major components for the web; HTTP, HTML and the world first web browser. Funnily enough, this browser was also called “the World Wide Web” and it also doubled as an editor.