We believe that the age the World Wide Web (WWW) turns today, that is 33, is special – why? Sir Tim Berners-Lee, its inventor, a young British computer scientist back then, was at the same age when he invented it in 1989. And we think that’s special enough to be happily shared on its 33rd mark. Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web intending to create a new mechanism for scientists to easily share data from their experiments. He was the first person who thought of using the internet to link one document directly to another.
The invention of the world wide web, without a doubt, changed the world forever. This milestone had been dubbed “Information Management: A Proposal” initially, and Berners-Lee was running back and forth on it for months to make it a reality. Although he never anticipated that his invention would change the course of history and usher in the information age.
The internet is a vast network of computers that are all linked together. But it was the world wide web that transformed this technology into something that brought information together and made it available to everybody. In essence, the world wide web is a collection of web pages located on this network of computers where your browser accesses the world wide web through the internet. And there’s no way you can access information without it.
It is powered by technologies such as HTML language, URL “addresses,” and hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP. URL (uniform resource locator), is the addressing scheme for finding a document; HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), connects computers; and HTML (hypertext markup language), which formats pages with hypertext links.
It was while working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. His concept quickly expanded beyond a network for scientists to share information, since he envisioned it as a universal and free ‘information space’ for everyone to share knowledge, communicate, and collaborate.
The internet became available to everyone, not only scientists, with the advent of the World Wide Web. It connected the world in a way that enabled people to obtain, share, and communicate with information. Since then, technology has enabled people to share their work and ideas via social networking sites, blogs, video sharing, and other means.
And, with that, we honor Sir Tim Berners-Lee once again for his great invention – the world wide web while it turns 33 today.
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