THE BRIEF

HISTORY OF
WORLD WIDE
WEB
 QUESTIONS FOR ASSESSMENT

1. What is the difference between

Internet and World Wide Web?
2. Can the terms Internet and
World Wide Web be used
interchangeably? Explain your
answer.
 QUESTIONS FOR ASSESSMENT

3. Explain the interrelationship of

Internet and World Wide Web.
4. Who is Tim Berners-Lee and
he is an important person?
5. What motivates Dr. Tim
Berners-Lee to develop or create
the World Wide Web?
 QUESTIONS FOR ASSESSMENT

6. What made the Internet and the

World Wide Web so popular?
7. What are the basic
components of the World Wide
Web?
8. How are Web Browser and URL
related to World Wide Web?
 QUESTIONS FOR ASSESSMENT

9. What is the difference between

Webpage and Website?
10. What is the impact or the
effect of World Wide Web to
Social Media?
11. How are mobile phones
affected by World Wide Web?
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
 The web is a wonderful place. It
connects people from across the globe,
keeps us updated with our friends and
family, and creates revolutions never
before seen in our lifetime.
It has certainly come a long way
since its humble beginnings back
in the early 1980's.
 In order to understand the
history of the World Wide Web
it's important to understand the
differences between the World
Wide Web and The Internet.
Many people refer to them as the
same thing, but in fact, although
the end result is the common
perception of most everyday
users, they are very different.
The internet is a series of
huge computer networks
that allows many
computers to connect and
communicate with each
other globally.
The World Wide Web is a
way of accessing
information over the
medium of the Internet. It
is an information-sharing
model that is built on top
of the Internet.
The Web is a Portion of
The Internet
The Web is just one of the
ways that information can
be disseminated over the
Internet.
 The Internet, not the Web, is
also used for email, which
relies on SMTP, Usenet news
groups, instant messaging
and FTP.
So the Web is just a portion
of the Internet, though a
large portion, but the two
terms are not synonymous
and should not be confused.
PICTURE
ANALYSIS
The World Wide Web uses three
protocols:
• HTML (Hypertext markup
language)
• HTTP (Hypertext Transfer
Protocol)
• URL (Uniform resource locator)
or Web Address
DR. TIM BERNERS-LEE
In 1990 Dr. Tim Berners-Lee,
a physicist at a laboratory for
particle physics in Geneva,
perceived that his work
would be easier if he and his
far-flung colleagues could
easily link to one another’s
computer.
 He saw the set of links
from computer to
computer to computer as
a spider’s web. That’s the
reason why he call it
World Wide Web.
WEB BROWSER (BROWSER)
A software application used to
locate, retrieve and display
content on the World Wide Web,
including Web pages, images,
video and other files.
When the World Wide
Web first started, web
pages were simply text
documents – static in
short.
 Nowadays web pages are
much more than documents;
they now have the ability to
be full blown applications.
Part of this ability is due to
the additions of JavaScript
and CSS.
 Webpage is a
part of a website.
Social networks became
especially popular on the
web between the years of
1995-2000.
More importantly, internet
companies around the
world paved the way for
social networks as they
are known today.
 One of the most recent
milestones in the history
of the World Wide Web is
accessibility via mobile
devices.
Until this point accessing
the web had
fundamentally been from
computers or laptops.
Now the number of users
accessing the web from
mobile devices is growing
rapidly and is set to
overtake desktop access
by 2015.
 LET’S APPLY:
Look at your smart phones.
Reflect on how you are
utilizing the capability of your
smart phone to be part of the
Internet and access the
World Wide Web.
“The Science of
Today is the
Technology of
Tomorrow.”