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History of the World Wide Web
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The inventors of the world Wide Web are Sir Timothy John Berners Lee (born June 8, 1955) and, to a lesser extent, Robert Cayo.
Tim Berners Lee is the author of HTTP, URI/URL and HTML technologies.
In 1980, he worked at the European Council for Nuclear Research (French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, CERN) as a software consultant.
It was there, in Geneva (Switzerland), that he wrote the "Enquire" program for his own needs, which laid the conceptual basis for the World Wide Web.
In 1989, while working at CERN on the organization's internal network, Tim Berners Lee proposed a global hypertext project, now known as the World Wide Web.
As part of the project, Berners Lee wrote the world's first web server and the world's first hypertext web browser, called "WorldWideWeb".
Berners Lee created the world's first website at http://info.cern.ch/, the site is now stored in the archive.
This site appeared on the Internet on August 6, 1991.
This site described what the World Wide Web is, how to install a web server, how to use a browser.
This site was also the first Internet directory in the world, because later Tim Berners Lee posted and maintained a list of links to other sites there.
And yet the theoretical foundations of the web were laid much earlier.
Back in 1945, Vanniver Bush developed the concept of "Memex" - auxiliary means of"expanding human memory".
Memex is a device in which a person stores all his books and records (and, ideally, all his knowledge that can be formally described) and which provides the necessary information with sufficient speed and flexibility.
Bush also predicted a comprehensive indexing of texts and multimedia resources with the ability to quickly search for the necessary information.
The next significant step on the way to the World Wide Web was the creation of hypertext (the term was introduced by Ted Nelson in 1965).
Fig.
75. The logo of the World Wide Web Consortium
Since 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium, founded and still headed by Tim Berners Lee, has taken over the main work on the development of the World Wide Web.
The W3C is an organization that develops and implements technological standards for the Internet and the World Wide Web.
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