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The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet. [49] Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. [50]
The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 623 by the end of the year. [2] In 1994, websites for the general public became available. [ 3 ] By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was 2,278, including several notable websites and many precursors of today's most popular services.
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards organization which oversees and encourages the Web's continued development, co-director of the Web Science Trust, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. [222] In 1994, Berners-Lee became one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. [223]
The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used interchangeably; it is common to speak of "going on the Internet" when using a web browser to view web pages. However, the World Wide Web, or the Web, is only one of a large number of Internet services, [19] a collection of documents (web pages) and other web resources linked by hyperlinks ...
First web robot: Matthew K. Gray produces the first known web robot, the Perl-based World Wide Web Wanderer, and uses it to generate an index of the web called the Wandex. [13] [14] [15] However, the World Wide Web Wanderer is intended only to measure the size of the web rather than to facilitate search. September: 2: First web search engine
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.
[20] [21] He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale". [22] He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention. [23]