WORLD WIDE WEB DAY
AUGUST- 1
World Wide Web Day is
celebrated on August 1 every year. The day is observed to commemorate the World
Wide Web (www) and its impact on the world.
It was on August 1 in
1991 that Tim Berners-Lee posted a proposal for the World Wide Web on the
alt.hypertext newsgroup; this day is, therefore, celebrated with great
importance every year. The year 1989 marked the beginning of the Internet. From
that point forward, it has continued to evolve.
The World Wide Web, or
simply ‘the Web’, was made by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he was working
at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research).
In March 1989,
Berners-Lee presented a proposal for a "distributed information
system" to facilitate sharing and updating information between scientists
at CERN. Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the first web
browser, WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus), and the first web server,
"httpd," in 1990.
The world's first
website went live on August 6, 1991. It was a basic page that made sense of the
World Wide Web project and gave data about how to access and utilize it. This
site was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer, which likewise served as the
world's first web server.
Prof. John Kurakar
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