WEB

The Web

The World Wide Web www is a graphical interface to Internet resources. Web refers to the set of hypermedia pages accessible via the Internet. Nearly twenty years ago, a 25-year-old computer consultant named Tim Berners-Lee gave birth to a revolution that has set out universe into a limitless communication highway. His thoughts began with wanting to better organize the files on his computer. Over a ten-year period he worked out a system code HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), it’s the highlighted links you click on. HTML is still functions of the Web today. Then he figured how to give each Web site a static address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator), and developed a set of rules for how documents could be linked. Not long after he created the first Web browser, a tool allowing users anywhere to view his creations from their own computers. On November 12, 1990, in a memo he formally proposed his project to his employer in Geneva. By the time he introduced the Web to the public, personal computers had become very popular, so it was easy for people to join it. Within five years the Web had 40 million users. Berners-Lee curiosity and desire to make information accessible to everyone has remained devoted to using the Web to keep the Internet, which was once only a tool of the elite, open to the public masses. The Web has remained virtually boundless and unfettered. Almost everyone has access through the public library, a Star Bucks, at school, or possible even on their own P.C. at home.
The Internet provides opportunities for people to connect to others within a classroom around the world or on a chat room across the United States. Teachers use the Web to share their ideas, lessons plans, classroom projects, and even students’ work. Students benefit because they can share ideas and develop a strong foundation for learning without discriminating factors interfering with the communication process.


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