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What comes into your mind when you hear the word “web”? The WorldWideWeb. Gone are the days when we thought of the web as the structure woven by spiders as their “house” and prey trap at the same time. Or the structural design of the duck’s or the frog’s feet that help them paddle and swim. But no reason to get nostalgic. After all, only very small fragments remain manifested in our conscious mind of the firsts we had experienced in grade school. What with the whirlwind of activities and tasks we now have to undertake every day just to be able to co-exist with the quick-wit modern human? No regrets at all but instead, gratitude to Mr. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of www. It was he, who in 1980, built ENQUIRE, his personal database of people and software models. It was also a toy to him, playing with then unknown hypertext which enabled him to get to an information from another page which he linked with “it”. After more than 10 years of lukewarm appreciation of their efforts by prospective vendors and other supporters, with the help of a colleague, Mr. Robert Cailliau, they remained firm and continued to build all the necessary tools for a working web: • the HyperText Transfer Protocol (http) 0.9, • the HyperText Markup Language (html), • the WorldWideWeb, the first web browser and • the CERN httpd, the first HTTP server software By Christmas 1990, they duo launched and started using their http://info.cern.ch, the first web server. But the formal launching of the WorldWideWeb available for public use was in August 6, 1991 when Mr. Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the WorldWideWeb project. We have more to thank Mr. Berners-Lee for. In 1994, as a reaction to apprehensions caused by an announcement of the University of Minnesota, implementer of Gopher (the other popular web protocol at that time) that it will charge license fees, his organisation, European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had agreed and announced that “anyone can use the WWW web protocol and code without fees or royalties”. Thus, WWW as we know it today was born. Now, we can enjoy Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Tumbler, BlogSpot, Gmail, Yahoo!, et cetera without having to worry about subscription fees and royalties. The WWW also opened up inroads to many a business based on “it”, including web development, web design, graphics design and development, usability services, service design, web advertising and promotion, e-commerce, game development and distribution, and many other business opportunities yet to be created or discovered.
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