Happy Birthday World Wide Web (For Tomorrow)

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The Internet is a big part of millions of peoples lives, tomorrow it is the World Wide Webs 17th birthday.

 

1989, Tim Berners-Lee with the help of Robert Cailliau used the ideas of hypertext and connected it with TCP & DNS and saw the opportunity for the internet. 12th November 1990 they put there plans forward to Mike Sendall there manager of CERN. Berners-Lee & Cailliau also designed the first web browser, editor and web server. 6 August 1991, the worlds first website was online it explained what the world wide web was and how you could make your own web server.

 

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web."

 

Tim Berners-Lee Website - http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/