The World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday today

On 23 August 1991, the public gained access for the first time to the World Wide Web, reports CNET.

The World Wide Web is the brainchild of computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland.

In 1980, Berner-Lee had created a personal database of people and software models at CERN. It was here he deployed the use of hypertext, where each page linked to another, already existing page.

Over the next decade, he would develop this further, and in 1989 proposed the idea of “a universal linked information system” to help physicists collaborate, combining the internet with hypertext.

In 1990, he built the HyperText Transfer Protocol (which you may know as HTTP); the HyperText Markup Language (HTML); Uniform Resource Identifier (or URL); the first web browser and server; and the first web pages.

This should not be confused with what we call the “internet”, a network system that has existed since 1969 and refers to the network that carries information between nodes.

Rather, the World Wide Web refers to the space on this network where information, such as web pages and documents, are stored.

It’s the whole reason why monoliths like Google exist and why we can bring you great content on MyGaming.

So Happy Birthday, and may you have many more.

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