WWW Birth

Tim Berners-Lee

The World Wide Web is the brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist. It was originally developed in 1989 to allow scientists working in different universities all over the world to share information. The basic idea was to merge the technologies of personal computers, networks, and the hypertext into a powerful, yet easy to use global communication system.

The internet different from the web

The internet is a massive network of networks that connects millions of computers together globally. In this network, any computer can communicate with any other computer, as long as they are both connected to the internet.

The web, on the other hand, is like a bunch of ‘pages’ of information connected to each other around the globe. What makes web pages interesting is that they contain hyperlinks. Each links points to another web pages. Another characteristic of the web is that you can search it. These invisible connections between pages are like the threads of a spider’s web, hence the name World Wide Web.