A report on World Wide Web and WorldWideWeb

A global map of the Web Index for countries in 2014

This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.

The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images (GIFs).

$Graphic representation of a minute fraction of the WWW, demonstrating hyperlinks$

A screenshot of a web page on Wikimedia Commons

Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)

The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge web server, a computer designed for rack mounting

Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website; here, Dell servers are installed together to be used for the Wikimedia Foundation.

The results of a search for the term "lunar eclipse" in a web-based image search engine

WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor.

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In 1990, he developed the foundations for the Web: HTTP, HTML, the WorldWideWeb browser, a server, and the first website in order to manage documentation.

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Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content

Web browser

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Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992

Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007

A web browser (also referred to as an Internet browser or simply a browser) is application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.

The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee

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This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server

Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010

Berners-Lee speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation

Berners-Lee's tweet, "This is for everyone", at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London

Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum for the Web@30 event, March 2019

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

Mosaic (web browser)

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Discontinued web browser, one of the first to be widely available.

Mosaic 1.0 running under System 7.1, displaying the Mosaic Communications Corporation (later Netscape) website.

It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.

It is often described as the first graphical web browser, though it was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise, and ViolaWWW.