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Thursday, August 18, 2011

WWW 'born' on August 6, 1991 is celebrating its 20th anniversary year

LONDON - Yes, the WWW is always used by the netter before entering the site address on the internet. WWW 'born' on August 6, 1991, which was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. British man launches webpage page for the first time 20 years ago.

There is a special time for Internet users around the world on August 6, 2011 ago. The reason is precisely that day, the World Wide Web (WWW) is celebrating its 20th anniversary year.

WWW was initiated as a simple page pointing out a link to allows a group of scientists to share data within their laboratories before it will be applied by common people. However, Tim Berners-Lee released it to the public, and then it has become an crucial and dominant part of life for billions of people.

Quoted by the Daily Mail, Monday (08/08/2011), London-born physicist who is also a computer scientist working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva when he tried to find a better way for colleagues to connect the data.

He first proposed the WWW in 1989 and post the data from the newsgroups alt.hypertext project, the project was then known by the name, "WWW project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere"

Limited not only want to use for users among scientists, Tim Berner-Lee was spread throughout the world for the general public. "We are very interested in spreading the web to other areas and having gateway servers for other data," he said.

And collaborate they did in 1992, there were 50 web servers around the world. And the journey there for 20 years 19.68 billion more pages that are created or more than three times the world's population.

While the website is first introduced-http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - running on nxoc01.cern.ch.


WWW 'born' on August 6, 1991 is celebrating its 20th anniversary year