World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (also called WWW or W3).
History
A Quotation of Tim Berner-Lee's Answers for Young People:
- Did you invent the Internet?
No, no, no!
When I was doing the WWW, most of the bits I needed were already done.
Vint Cerf and people he worked with had figured out the Internet Protocol, and also the Transmission Control Protocol.
Paul Mockapetris and friends had figured out the Domain Name System.
People had already used TCP/IP and DNS to make email, and other cool things. So I could email other people who maybe would like to help work on making the WWW.
I didn't invent the hypertext link either. The idea of jumping from one document to another had been thought about lots of people, including Vanevar Bush in 1945, and by Ted Nelson (who actually invented the word hypertext). Bush did it before computers really existed. Ted thought of a system but didn't use the internet. Doug Engelbart in the 1960's made a great system just like WWW except that it just ran on one [big] computer, as the internet hadn't been invented yet. Lots of hypertext systems had been made which just worked on one computer, and didn't link all the way across the world.
I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and -- ta-da! -- the World Wide Web.- What were the first WWW browsers?
- Berners-Lee wrote in 1990 the first GUI browser, and called it "WorldWideWeb". It ran on the NeXT computer.
- Viola, Pei Wei a student at U.C. Berkeley in 1992 or 1993 ?