History of the Web

  • The word web was initially conceived and created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 who was a computer specialist from the European .Tim Berners-Lee and his partner Robert Cailliau created a prototype web for CERN and released it to the Internet community for testing and comments.
  • Since then it has grown under the guidance of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), volunteer organization based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with the responsibility for developing and maintaining common standards.
  • Perhaps the single most important technological development in the history of the web, besides the creation of the web itself, was the development of graphical browsers in the early 90s. Beginning with NCSA's Mosaic and its evolution into Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer, these programs allowed users to browse the resources on the web in an extremely user friendly environment.