History of the World Wide Web:

The World Wide Web was invented by a British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He was working at CERN at that time. Originally, it was developed by him to fulfill the need of automated information sharing between scientists across the world, so that they could easily share the data and results of their experiments and studies with each other.

CERN, where Tim Berners worked, is a community of more than 1700 scientists from more than 100 countries. These scientists spend some time on CERN site, and rest of the time they work at their universities and national laboratories in their home countries, so there was a need for reliable communication tools so that they can exchange information.

Internet and Hypertext were available at this time, but no one thought how to use the internet to link or share one document to another. Tim focused on three main technologies that could make computers understand each other, HTML, URL, and HTTP. So, the objective behind the invention of WWW was to combine recent computer technologies, data networks, and hypertext into a user-friendly and effective global information system.

How the Invention Started

In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee took the initiative towards the invention of WWW and wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web. Later, he wrote another proposal in May 1990. After a few months, in November 1990, along with Robert Cailliau, it was formalized as a management proposal. This proposal had outlined the key concepts and defined terminology related to the Web. In this document, there was a description of "hypertext project" called World Wide Web in which a web of hypertext documents could be viewed by browsers. His proposal included the three main technologies (HTML, URL, and HTTP).

In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee was able to run the first Web server and browser at CERN to demonstrate his ideas. He used a NeXT computer to develop the code for his Web server and put a note on the computer "The machine is a server. Do Not Power It DOWN!!" So that it was not switched off accidentally by someone.

In 1991, Tim created the world's first website and Web Server. Its address was info.cern.ch, and it was running at CERN on the NeXT computer. Furthermore, the first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. This page had links to the information related to the WWW project, and also about the Web servers, hypertext description, and information for creating a Web server.