The web is the best thing that happened to the
Internet. While the two terms, internet and web might seem synonymous, there’s
a difference. The internet is a collection of interconnected computers while
the web is the collection of interconnected web pages, or as Wikipedia says:
“The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via
the internet.” Technically, WWW is a service which works on the internet
(emails is another example). So, though a chat email or database server might
be a part of internet, they’re not directly a part of web (even if they happen
to be used to show web pages).
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The earliest version of the web was the work of a
single man, namely Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist who started
playing around with hypertext in 1980 as part of a personal database of people
and software models. In 1989, he wrote the first proposal for the standard and
in 1990, the second one was written by Tim’s colleague Robert Cailliau while he
was working on the developments of HTTP, HTML, web browser and web server.
During 1992 to 1995, the technology took a huge leap forward. It was during
this time that W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) was founded and took charge of
standardizing the web. Had it not been for the web, you’d have a more social
life than your Facebook statuses imply but you’d also not have such a vast sea
of information at your fingertips!
