World Wide Web has many
connotations and interpretations. For some, the web is a medium of free
expression and for others it is something that merits censorship. But Sir Tim
Beners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in 1998 said “the Web is an
abstract (imaginary) space of information”.
However, Sir Tim’s proposal was initially rejected by his boss at the
Swiss Physics laboratory, CERN. It wasn’t accepted until he proposed the three
technologies HTML (HyperText Markup Language), URI(Uniform Resource Identifier)
and HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol). The web was built on the foundation of
these three, and they still remain in the use. In the beginning, the webpage
were static, read-only text pages. Images world open in another browser window.
Its changed when the first user-friendly browser Mosaic was launched. It
provide to be critical in the explosion of web. The pages looked better with
inline images and it had most of the features that is seen today in a browser.
A URI bar, back and forward buttons were first introduced by Mosaic. Netscape
Navigator came much later and turned the web on its head. However, what made
the World Wide Web even more attractive was that CERN waived its royalties in
1993. This paved the way for innovation and made the web what it is today.
