Tim Berners-Lee was a 34-year-old British physicist working as a software engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland when he created the
World Wide Web.
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World Wide Web was almost called something completely different: Sir Tim considered a number of name options before settling on
World Wide Web.
She added that the web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world, while in 1993, CERN put the
World Wide Web software in the public domain and later CERN made a release available with an open license.
The internet, which is a network of networks formed of computers, existed long before the
World Wide Web.
This proposal would lead to the creation of the
World Wide Web, which would help enable the modern day internet as we know it.
Berners-Lee and the
World Wide Web Foundation hope that the campaign will generate enough support to publish the contract by May 2019, the projected time when more than half of the world's population will have access to the Web.
The legendary computer scientist, who also serves as a director for the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees standards for the Internet and
World Wide Web, will discuss key recommendations that could help Internet users protect their data, with a focus on his vision of providing users with an open platform that enables them to exchange data, access information and achieve cross-cultural cooperation regardless of geographic borders.
"The
World Wide Web and the Next 25 Years" will also highlight why principles of integrity, openness, and individuals' freedom to use technology unimpaired should underpin its governance.
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World Wide Web: http://asumag.com/ exclusive/21st-century-learning-qa?page=19.
"We're going to put these things back in place, so that a web developer or someone who's interested 100 years from now can read the first documentation that came out from the
World Wide Web team," he said.