# The Web
|  | The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as **The Web**, is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). |
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| | wikipedia:: [World Wide Web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web) |
- User-agent
- The [[Browser]]
- Or any tool that acts on behalf of the user
- Hyperlinks
- [[WebSocket]]
[[Web app]]
[[Browser]]
## [[Web Development]]
## [[Browser]]
## History & Background
- DARPA
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Worked at Cern
- 1990 proposed WWW & HTML
- Tim Berners-Lee proposed the architecture of what became known as the World Wide Web. He created the first web server, web browser, and webpage on his computer at the CERN physics research lab in 1990. In 1991, he announced his creation on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, marking the moment the Web was first made public.
- an interconnected system of public webpages accessible through the Internet. The Web is not the same as the Internet – the Web is one of many applications built on top of the Internet.
## 3 Pillars of The Web: [[HTTP]], [[HTML]], [[URL & URI]]
## [[Web Server]]
### [[Proxy Server]]
## [[Web Cache]]
## [[Semantic web]]
## Visions, Versions, Concepts, Innovation, the Future
### [[Web 2.0|Web 1.0]]
### [[Web 2.0]]
### [[Semantic web]]
[[Tim Berners-Lee]]
### Web3, Decentralized, Distributed, & Fediverse
- [[Web3]]
- [[Decentralized computing]]
- [[Distributed computing]]
- [[Peer-to-peer]]
- [[Blockchain]]
- [[Fediverse]]
- [[IndieWeb]]
### IndieWeb
- [[IndieWeb]]
- Host on/with your own domain and syndicate elsewhere for aggregation, etc.
## [[Digital & web publishing, feeds, sharing, forums, & collaboration]]
![[Digital & web publishing, feeds, sharing, forums, & collaboration]]
## [[Explain what happens when you type google.com in a browser]]
## Tools
## Inbox
- [[Godwin's law]]