The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web

               

             The World Wide Web is abbreviated as WWW or W3 and it's commonly known as the web. It's a system of interlinked hypretext documents accessed via the internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

          

             The web was developed between March 1989 and December 1990. Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems such as ENQUIRE (A software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web), British engineer Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist and at that time employee of the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research), now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.

             The 1989 proposal was meant for a more effective CERN communication system but Berners-Lee eventually realised the concept could be implemented throughout the world. At CERN, a European research organisation near Geneva straddling the border between France and Switzerland, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will",and Berners-Lee finished the first website in December that year.

         

              Berners-Lee's breakthrough was to marry hypertext to the Internet. In his book Weaving The Web, he explains that he had repeatedly suggested that a marriage between the two technologies was possible to members of both technical communities, but when no one took up his invitation, he finally assumed the project himself. In the process, he developed three essential technologies:

a system of globally unique identifiers for resources on the Web and elsewhere, the universal document identifier (UDI), later known as uniform resource locator (URL) and uniform resource identifier (URI);

the publishing language HyperText Markup Language (HTML);

the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

            Here are some of the disadvantages and advantages of World Wide Web.

            Advantages:

-Able to find lot's of information

-Able to purchase things online

-Able to watch things or listen to things

-Able to play games

-Able to check your account

-Able to find files

-Able to find friends

-Able to do lot's of things

            Disadvantages:

-You can get infections

-You can get hacked

-Not secure

-People can invade your privacy

-People can steal your account

-People decreases the time they go out and stays on the world wide web for too long

-You can get spammed

             That was all from me for the article about the World Wide Web. Sorry if I have any mistakes and thank you for your attention.