World Wide Web
Back in the year 1989 arguably one of the most important developments within technology was the World Wide Web. In the year of 1989, a computer scientist named Tim Bernes Lee who was from London in the United Kingdom. Tim was always interested in different gadgets and toys since he was a little kid. Later on, in his college years, he attended Oxford University in England. While he was in college he was so intelligent that he took an old television set and turned it into a computer all by himself. Once he graduated from Oxford University Tim Bernes Lee moved to Geneva, Switzerland to work for CERN. CERN was a research institute for scientists from all over the world that conducted many different types of research. This is where Tim first had his idea of creating the World Wide Web. When the idea was developed and put together by himself he made a document for his proposal called “Information Management: A Proposal”. Shockingly, when he first proposed his idea and plan for his creation it was not accepted originally. Months later after editing and improving his proposal he eventually invented the World Wide Web by himself and was not considered to be a CERN project.
When Tim first developed the World Wide Web only individuals within CERN were only able to use the web at first. Eventually, in the year 1991, any and all individuals outside of CERN had access and the ability to use the world wide web. Anyone who wanted to use it was allowed to try it out and join the community of this astonishing new technology invention. When it was first released outside of CERN, he considered and debated if there is or should not be a cost to use it. Tim believed the best option to give access to anyone to use the world wide web would be the best idea if there was zero cost to it. This decision was made after he realized the world wide web would have more potential of being successful if there was no price individuals would have to pay just to use it. When the world wide web was first developed the main idea for it was for scientists from all different universities to be able to communicate amongst each other without traveling to meet and conduct research altogether. It allowed scientists to do research and studies from their university while collaborating with scientists from a different university on the other side of the world.
Developments and Improvements
As the World Wide Web became more popular and used throughout the entire world it developed and changed fast throughout the years. Originally when it was first developed the browser was only able to bring you to twenty-six web servers. Which grew throughout the years and many more servers were added every year. The web at first had no pictures at all and no buttons as well. This was at the early beginning for the first few years when the World Wide Web was first created. In the year of 1993, the web started to be used daily by many individuals as it developed and added more websites to use. Towards the end of 1994, there were more popular websites that were created and used. This is when the popular and still used website today Yahoo!, was first introduced. The website developed early on in 1994 in January, it was created by two students from Stanford University in California. Both Jerry Yang and David Filo created and brainstormed ideas to make this very successful website.
When the World Wide Web was first established in Switzerland by computer scientist Tim Bernes Lee at CERN. Five years later Robert Cailliau organized and planned the first World Wide Web conference in May of 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference was held where the World Wide Web was originally created which was at CERN in Switzerland. Since it was created at CERN, every year the conference was held there because of it. The first year in 1994 there were nearly four hundred participants who attended the conference. At this event, there were multiple awards given for all sorts of personal achievements that helped shape and develop the World Wide Web.
A lot of improvements and changes were done over time to the web as we know and use it today. When it was generated it looks a lot different than how it looks today, as a lot of changes were made while new technological advances were made and created. In the mid-2000s there was a lot of change and development that was made and what is referred to as Web 2.0. This simply means that new developments changed the look and design and also incorporated user-generated content. This time period also sparked a very popular platform that we still use and love today, which is social media websites. This is when popular social media websites including Facebook and MySpace were established. Once Web 2.0 was created and took over it is still current to today and how we use and view the World Wide Web in our daily lives.
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