The web (WWW – World Wide Web, not the Internet) celebrates 20th birthday Today. 20 years ago this same day (August 6 1991), Tim Berners-Lee created the web and written a first website using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), that started the new world of Communication and the information.
On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. He created the first web browser/editor WorldWideWeb, later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web.
About Tim Berners-Lee:
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversaw the Web’s continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
He is a director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.
Tim's Browser/Editor
Links on WWW:
The website of the world’s first-ever web server.
WWW@20.
Tim Berners-Lee’s original World Wide Web browser.
