World Wide Web history

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- 1989 English computer scientist Tim berners-lee wrote a vision for what he would want the World Wide Web to look like.

- 1990 Tim berners-lee created HTML, HTTP, URL and the first web browser, World wide web.

- 1994 many things happened like The domain Yahoo! Being registered by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Netscape was founded by Jim clark. The first text search engine was launched called WebCrawler. Jeff bezos created amazon. The very first AD appeared promoting AT&T and Tim Berners-Lee founded The World Wide Web consortium with the goal of developing guidelines and protocols for the growth of the internet

- 1995 The first version of microsoft Internet Explorer was launched and became the most popular browser at the time. Ebay was launched as AuctionWeb.

- 1998 Google search was launched and it would grow to dominate the web browser markets as well as other industries

- 1999 Napster was launched and popularised Peer-to-Peer file sharing

- 2001 Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Singer and grew to be one of the main sources of information on the web.

- 2002 The first version of Firefox was released.

- 2003 LinkedIn is launched and now is the biggest professional site on the internet.

- 2004 Facebook Launched but until 2006 only students were able to access it.

- 2005 former pay pal employees form Youtube and now is owned by google.

- 2007 The iphone was released becoming an overnight sensation.

- 2010 Instagram was launched.

- 2012 facebook reached 1 billion users.

- 2013 Twitch got hit with a popularity boost and gained 45 million users.

How does the WWW work?

The web browser connects to the web server and sends an HTTP request (via the protocol stack) for the desired web page. The web server receives the request and checks for the desired page. If the page exists, the web server sends it. If the server cannot find the requested page, it will send an HTTP 404 error message. (best explanation I could find)