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Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2001), ISBN 1-58415-096-3; 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
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]
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.
Weaving the Web : the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0-06-251586-1. OCLC 41238513. Brügger, Niels (2017). Web 25 : histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-4331-3269-8.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October 1994. [4] It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, the most ...
WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser [1] and web page editor. [2] It was discontinued in 1994. It was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor. The source code was released into the public domain on 30 April 1993.
The initial development is by Comptek; Yandex would become a separate company in 2000. [31] 1998 June: 5: New web directory: Gnuhoo, a web directory project by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel, both employees of Sun Microsystems, launches. [14] [32] It would later be renamed the Open Directory Project. July–September: New web search portal
Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) [2] [3] is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Metcalfe has also made several predictions ...