{"id":101906,"date":"2016-08-23T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101906"},"modified":"2016-08-23T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:19:16","slug":"the-world-wide-web-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101906-the-world-wide-web-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-today","title":{"rendered":"The World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday today"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 23 August 1991, the public gained access for the first time to the World Wide Web, reports CNET<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The World Wide Web is the brainchild of computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee<\/a><\/strong> at CERN in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

In 1990, he built the HyperText Transfer Protocol (which you may know as HTTP<\/a><\/strong>); the HyperText Markup Language (HTML); Uniform Resource Identifier (or URL); the first web browser and server; and the first web pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Rather, the World Wide Web refers to the space on this network where information, such as web pages and documents, are stored.<\/p>\n

It’s the whole reason why monoliths like Google exist and why\u00a0we can bring you great content on MyGaming.<\/p>\n

So Happy Birthday, and may you have many more.<\/p>\n

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What is your best online memory? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We say Happy Birthday to an old friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":101908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,309,2378,21374],"class_list":["post-101906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-birthday","tag-internet","tag-www"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101912,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101906\/revisions\/101912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}