WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB?
The World Wide Web is a huge virtual landscape with an endless amount of information and digital content. It’s now a normal aspect of everyday life, but how was it formed and who by?
The internet was originally developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1964, with its focus to share research between various universities and defence facilities. The first messages were transmitted during 1969.
The internet is simply a way of viewing files that have been placed onto a server; and due to the numerous protocols, no single person invented it. For instance, Leonard Kleinrock was the first to develop the idea of packet switching, a fundamental aspect in order for the internet to function; while TCP/IP was developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Khan in 1974.
Perhaps the most significant development was by the British engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web and HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol); alongside developing HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), and URL (Uniform Resource Locator). His first proposal was made in March 1989, with the first ever communication being made on 25 December 1990.
“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and - ta-da! - the World Wide Web.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
The internet is now hugely popular in almost every aspect; for business, for education and for social use. Websites are now content rich since the implementation of Web 2.0, with streaming video now becoming a reality with increased internet speeds. It’s also a 24 hour shopping centre, where you can compare prices to get the best deal. People now micro-blog about their lives via services such as Facebook and Twitter. Although the best website ever created is undoubtedly Google, the powerful and innovative search engine that helps you find what you want when you want, and is the most visited website in the world.
The statistics speak for themselves; in December 1995, 16 million people used the internet (just 0.4% of the world population). However, as of June 2009, there are 1,669 million users, which is 24.7% of the world population.
The internet was originally developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1964, with its focus to share research between various universities and defence facilities. The first messages were transmitted during 1969.
The internet is simply a way of viewing files that have been placed onto a server; and due to the numerous protocols, no single person invented it. For instance, Leonard Kleinrock was the first to develop the idea of packet switching, a fundamental aspect in order for the internet to function; while TCP/IP was developed by Vint Cerf and Robert Khan in 1974.
Perhaps the most significant development was by the British engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web and HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol); alongside developing HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), and URL (Uniform Resource Locator). His first proposal was made in March 1989, with the first ever communication being made on 25 December 1990.
“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and - ta-da! - the World Wide Web.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
The internet is now hugely popular in almost every aspect; for business, for education and for social use. Websites are now content rich since the implementation of Web 2.0, with streaming video now becoming a reality with increased internet speeds. It’s also a 24 hour shopping centre, where you can compare prices to get the best deal. People now micro-blog about their lives via services such as Facebook and Twitter. Although the best website ever created is undoubtedly Google, the powerful and innovative search engine that helps you find what you want when you want, and is the most visited website in the world.
The statistics speak for themselves; in December 1995, 16 million people used the internet (just 0.4% of the world population). However, as of June 2009, there are 1,669 million users, which is 24.7% of the world population.
The World Wide Web is regarded by many as the best invention of the 20th Century, with The Telegraph ranking Sir Tim Berners-Lee number one in their list of 100 greatest living geniuses (published in 2007). It will continue to grow for decades to come, always innovating and bringing new content to the masses, with the next major development being internet connected televisions in living rooms across the globe.
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