World Wide Web Day
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University developed internal sharing systems; however, the WWW proposal, “an idea of linked information systems,” was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, a large particle physics laboratory in Geneva Switzerland). He worked with Belgian Robert Cailliau, a computer scientist & info engineer. Their idea was for physicists of different facilities to be able to share data via hyperlinks; the concept was not initially meant for the public. Berners-Lee used a NeXT computer, an early Steve Jobs product, to write the first web browser. This computer served as the first web browser. To facilitate this process, Berners-Lee and Cailliau created: (1) HTML (HyperText Markup Language) — the web formatting language (2) URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is a unique “address” used to identify each resource on the web, i.e., common name URL (3) HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) released in 1992 (...