The World Wide Web



This is a selection from my research paper on the Internet specifically on the origin of the worldwide web:

        "Unlike the Internet itself the World Wide Web came from one man with a desire to make his own life easier. The Internet had hundreds of creators but The World Wide Web is Berners-Lee’s alone (Quittner 1). He simply wanted a way to connect his notes and also retrieve notes from other systems; he had no idea what his project would become. He was the quintessential child of the computer age and his parents met while working on the first computer sold commercially (Quittner 3). This created the perfect background for him to be familiarized with the recent technological era he was born into. He majored in Physics and stated in an interview with Time that ‘Physics was fun in fact a good preparation for creating a global system’ (Quittner 3). Berners-Lee created this himself, but the project had to be sponsored by someone. CERN was the source of funding for the WWW (World Wide Web) project; however, on December 16, 1994 they handed the project over to INRIA (Anderburg 14). Tim Berners-Lee is given complete credit for this project and he could have easily done anything he wanted with it. Berners-Lee chose the nonprofit road and made the use of his system absolutely free and he remained content to labor quietly in the background (Quittner 3). After its release the World Wide Web grew at an astronomical rate due to its freedom and abilities. It began to spawn millions of Internet corporations and websites that began to make millions. On January of 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin [began] work on a search engine called Backrub soon renamed Google the most popular search engine today (Anderburg 15). This gave users the ability to search the entire network of computers looking for information they want. Berners-Lee took a powerful communication system and turned it into a mass medium that could be accessed from any computer terminal (Quittner 3). The network was soon transferring thousands of files that were known as web pages to people all over the world."

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