Topic 1.2 ...And the World Wide Web

WWW - Tim Berners-Lee



http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

Tim Berners-Lee you are a true hero - creator of the WWW. What is more, Berners-Lee made the Internet free for all of us (1993)

• Web is the "public face of the Internet"
• It is an application - the same as "email"
• Hypertext - makes us go from one webpage to another webpage (easy...but technical
• Vannevar Bush first thought of a machine to retrieve all human knowledge to a desktop in 1945
• 1965 – Ted Nelson came up with non-sequential non-linear connected text – as known as hypertext
• First mouse - 1968 by Dough Engelbart
• Tim Berners-Lee and workmates developed all the tools for WWW in 1990.
• 1993 - Mosaic, version 1.0 browser was developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina
• URLs - Uniform Resources Locators - help to remember where webpages are stored
• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - this is computer language written for each page
• It is fun to write HTML - but today people don't really write their own computer language anymore (there are easier ways - already done for us)
• The Web is BIGGGGGGGG - 2008, there were 1 trillion URLs (Google, 2008)