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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 ...
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 deep web, [70] invisible web, [71] or hidden web [72] are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search engines. The opposite term to the deep web is the surface web , which is accessible to anyone using the Internet. [ 73 ]
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.
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.
A variety of tools were developed to aid the use of FTP by helping users discover files they might want to transfer, including the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) in 1991, Gopher in 1991, Archie in 1991, Veronica in 1992, Jughead in 1993, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1988, and eventually the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1991 with Web directories ...
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]
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. [34] The “Web 1.0 era” ended in 2005, coinciding with the development of further advanced technologies during the start of the 21st century. [35] The first public digital HDTV broadcast was of the 1990 World Cup that June; it was played in 10 theaters in Spain and Italy. However, HDTV did ...