Evolution of the World Wide Web: From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0
Evolution and History of the World Wide Web
1. Introduction and Origins of the Web
The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.
- The Genesis: Invented by British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
- The Core Motivation: Developed to automate information-sharing among scientists globally, overcoming compatibility barriers between different computers and operating systems.
- The Core Building Blocks: By 1990, Berners-Lee defined the three fundamental technologies that remain the backbone of the modern web:
- HTML (HyperText Markup
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