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Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies), Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001), ISBN 0-89434-367-X children's biography; How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web, Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3
The history of the Internet and the history of hypertext date back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989. He proposed a "universal linked information system" using several concepts and technologies, the most fundamental of which was the connections that ...
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards organization which oversees and encourages the Web's continued development, co-director of the Web Science Trust, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. [222] In 1994, Berners-Lee became one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. [223]
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1] It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer ...
The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 130 by the end of the year. [2] In 1994, websites for the general public became available. [ 2 ] By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was 2,278, including several notable websites and many precursors of today's most popular services.
Berners-Lee designed HTTP in order to help with the adoption of his other idea: the "WorldWideWeb" project, which was first proposed in 1989, now known as the World Wide Web. The first web server went live in 1990. [26] [27] The protocol used had only one method, namely GET, which would request a page from a server. [28]
He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 [2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. [3] He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web.
Dave Raggett showed his testbed web browser Arena and gave a summary of his first HTML+ Internet Draft. [10] He also submitted a paper for VRML. [3]The Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago presented a web browser and HTML editor called Phoenix built upon tkWWW version 0.9.