Today, we are surrounded by countless websites—so many that it’s nearly impossible to count them all. According to statistics, the average modern person spends at least 46 hours per week on the internet. We can even access the internet through WAP mobile services.
The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee. It served as an introduction to and demonstration of the new technologies behind the World Wide Web (WWW). Berners-Lee had long been ready to launch the first website, and on August 6, 1991, he made history by creating the very first web page.
Berners-Lee was exceptionally talented—his contributions were like a breath of fresh air to the digital world. In 1980, he developed a hypertext software system called Enquire for managing information. Later, while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, he proposed using hypertext documents for sharing information online. In 1991, CERN officially approved the WWW standard.
Tim Berners-Lee is considered the “Father” of modern web technologies—namely HTTP, URI/URL, and HTML. However, the theoretical foundation of his invention had already been laid decades earlier. As early as the 1940s, Vannevar Bush discussed the expansion of human knowledge through technology and introduced the term “hypertext.” Berners-Lee brought Bush’s vision to life by combining it with emerging web technologies.
Many attribute Tim's intellectual prowess to growing up in a family of mathematicians. In 1976, he graduated with honors in Physics from Oxford University. During his studies, he often spent time in the computer lab playing games or experimenting with hacking, which eventually led to a ban from the lab. This ban pushed him to build his own personal computer.
The original website, info.cern.ch, is still active today. It provides insights into the fundamentals of website setup, as well as how web servers and browsers work. Tim Berners-Lee is currently the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The familiar "WWW" prefix in web addresses stands for "World Wide Web"—a metaphorical global spider web connecting us all.
In 2004, Tim Berners-Lee was honored with the title "Person of the Year."
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