12 of March was reached a historical landmark: 30 Web years!
The world wide web is the framework that allowed everyone to have access to content downloaded over the internet. If you ask a young person today, what difference is there between the web and the internet, I doubt if I can get a correct answer.
Let's go to the facts?
Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the Web. With 33 years had the idea of doing what would later be called World Wide Web, which would affect intelligent life on the planet.
Tim Berners-Lee was one of the software engineers at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Switzerland, when he thought of developing a large hypertext database with links, called “Mesh”, to help his colleagues at CERN to share information between various computers. This idea served as the basis for the World Wide Web, which turned 30 on March 12, 2019.
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World Wide Web is not the same as Internet
Although the terms are used, often as synonyms, the Internet and the Web are not the same thing. The internet is a set of networks that connect to each other forming an immense web including hundreds of millions of servers and data centers that enables you from anywhere in the world to connect with other computers anywhere on the planet.
The Internet originated in the 60 decade, while the World Wide Web came at the end of the 80 decade to enable people to easily access information stored on the Internet.
A practical example: if you use an application like WhatsApp, for example, this uses the internet, but not the web. The "www" uses the hypertext transfer protocol as the basis for the distribution of information and communication.
2. What if the "Web" had another name?
Tim Berners-Lee considered naming his network as "Information Mesh", Or" Information Mine "or" Mine of Information ".
3. What if the platform was closed?
In 1991, Berners-Lee came to realize the importance of making the web an open platform, something that stands for today.
"You cannot propose that something is a universal space and at the same time maintain control of it" - Tim Berners-Lee
In 1993, Lee and CERN announced that the code used to build the web would be free for anyone to use it. It was this movement that allowed the global computer network to become what it is today.
