LONDON, ENGLAND, August 3, 2006: In a few short years the web has become so familiar that it is hard to think of life without it. Along with that familiarity with browsers and bookmarks goes a little knowledge about the web’s history. Many users know that Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the web at the Cern physics laboratory near Geneva . But few will know the details of the world wide web’s growth – not least because the definitive history of how that happened has yet to be written. One key date is 6 August 1991 – the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it. On that day the web went world wide. Jeff Groff, who worked with Mr Berners-Lee on the early code, said a very simple idea was behind the web. “The vision was that people should not have to deal with the technology stuff,” he said. The web was an overlay that tried to hide the underlying complexity of the data and documents proliferating on the internet. For the rest of this informative article on a major technological advancement, click URL above.
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