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The Web

img 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).
wikipedia:: World Wide Web

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

Visions, Versions, Concepts, Innovation, the Future

Web3, Decentralized, Distributed, & Fediverse

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

Publishing & Feeds

Tools

Blogging & Microblogging

Video, images, etc.

Link aggregators, curated, comments, etc.

Specific, solutions, forums, etc.

Topics, areas

IndieWeb

E.g., can embed anywhere, on your own site. Can be syndicated anywhere via RSS, etc.
IndieWeb

Tools

Sharing, lists, feeds, links, bookmarks, articles, info, etc.

Tools

Inbox

The Web
Interactive graph
On this page
The Web
Web Development
Browser
History & Background
3 Pillars of The Web: HTTP, HTML, URL & URI
Web Server
Proxy Server
Web Cache
Semantic web
Visions, Versions, Concepts, Innovation, the Future
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Semantic web
Web3, Decentralized, Distributed, & Fediverse
IndieWeb
Digital & web publishing, feeds, sharing, forums, & collaboration
Explain what happens when you type google.com in a browser
Tools
Inbox