“The Web” exists today exactly 25 years. On this day in 1991, created a computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee first compound where multiple Internet users could find information. This is the story of how a post on a forum led to the worldwide web where you are reading this message.
Before 1991 the Internet was there, but the World Wide Web (WWW) yet. The international “network of networks” had been in use for years and had several millions of users across the globe. These early adopters were mostly scientists, including one Tim Berners-Lee. British computer scientist who worked in the renowned nuclear research center CERN and needed a convenient system to share, connect and manage information. So he invented and made himself.
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It was Berners-Lee to a more convenient system than for example the various – and not linked together – internet forums which were then prevalent. Usenet was the system where that happened earlier form of communication and information dissemination. In one of the subject-specific “discussion groups (called newsgroups) a question was asked on August 6, 1991 on the then-new concept of hypertext: text files using remote references text files aanwezen elsewhere, so that readers can delve further into related information.
This seems so normal and natural that it is difficult to imagine that such a system not from the outset has been on the internet. Yet is this really the case before Berners-Lee’s invention of the web with mutually linking pages and systems, the internet was quite fragmented. In addition, information that could then stood Online also contain another much duplication and – worse yet – those copies could not be updated and therefore incorrect or trailing
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“Is someone this newsgroup reads aware of research and development in the following areas
” Is someone this newsgroup reads aware research and development activities in the following areas: 1. hypertext links that make it possible to retrieve information from multiple, heterogeneous sources “That was the question in 1991, where no one answered less than Berners-Lee. He was just a computer scientist, one of many. But his answer and course development work has established its reputation and changed the world.
The explanation on Usenet the “webvader ‘was the first public mention of it as being still under development WWW. Formally is August 6 must therefore be regarded as a birthday, but that date lacks an important element that the web has made just as big. A few weeks after that first ‘mention’ of the WorldWideWeb project by its author Berners-Lee has been put system open for new users. The date was August 23rd. Later that day proclaimed “surfer day ‘, as a combination of the Internet and astronaut because exploring the Internet when really began.
The website has a website
The first website was a website on a website
to open the fledgling web namely has large groups of users with easy data access and thus internet really brought to the masses. People no longer had with complex or primitive see user interfaces to access separate silos of information. Of course, it was not all by itself. The first website ever was therefore literally an explanation of what a website.
Berners-Lee created the website itself and turned on his work computer at CERN. That was not a server somewhere in a data center with dedicated Internet connections. It was just a powerful computer (called a workstation) where he was doing his research. Yes, this was before the days of Windows. PCs had to do it then mainly with the command line MS-DOS (and other DOS versions). Adjust the Windows era, in April 1992 began with the arrival of Windows 3.1.
No Mac yet Jobs
But Berners-Lee also did not work on a Mac, which offered a user-friendly graphical user interface since January 1984. One year after the revolution of the Macintosh, Apple founder Steve Jobs ousted from his own company. Conflicts with the then government, partly brought home by Jobs himself, the headstrong chief executive have done the tie around. In response, the then 30-year-old Jobs launched a new computer company NeXT. Jobs wanted so realize his vision for the next wave of computer development.
Advanced, powerful computers were then quite different than regular PCs and the previous batch of microcomputers (including the Apple] [, Commodore 64, MSX , etcetera). The square Next Cubes workstations that were sacrificed for scientists and computer scientists as Berners-Lee. His computer was with the invention of the web at CERN also do server work, for which the ‘webvader’ has taken an important step. The Next Cube showing the world’s first website was adorned with a sticker which Berners-Lee wrote: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER OFF !! “.
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