Happy 30th Birthday to the World Wide Web.
The world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 – originally he was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments. Hypertext (text displayed on a computer display that links to other text the reader can immediately access) and the internet already existed, but no one had thought of a way to use the internet to link one document directly to another.
Find out more about the work Berners-Lee conducted at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland.
There are three main ingredients that make up the world wide web. URL (uniform resource locator), which is the addressing scheme to find a document; HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), which connects computers together; and HTML (hypertext markup language), which formats pages containing hypertext links.
The video below shares some info about how the web has developed since its creation.
SOURCE: Google Arts & Culture