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- Vannevar Bush first proposed the basics of hypertext in 1945. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators) in 1990.
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In 1992, Lynx was born as an early Internet web browser. Its ability to provide hypertext links within documents that could reach into documents anywhere on the Internet began the creation of the Web on the Internet.
The Internet today is a widespread information infrastructure, the initial prototype of what is often called the National (or Global or Galactic) Information Infrastructure. Its history is complex and involves many aspects – technological, organizational, and community.
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.
Hypertext, broadly defined, is a document which contains links to other documents. Pretty simple in theory, but it’s a concept that has echoed through the minds of innovators for over a hundred years. Engelbart did not invent hypertext. The word itself was used first by Ted Nelson as early as 1965.
Already, millions of computers were being connected together through the fast-developing internet and Berners-Lee realised they could share information by exploiting an emerging technology called hypertext.
The basic idea of the WWW was to merge the evolving technologies of computers, data networks and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system. How the Web began The first page of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, written in March 1989 (Image: CERN)
Discover the fascinating history of the Internet, from ARPANET to the World Wide Web and beyond. Learn how it revolutionized communication and connectivity.
