History of World Wide Web ( A Report)

In 1980 Tim Berner-lee, while working at CERN(Centre European pour la Recherche Nucleaire -or- European Laboratory for Particle Physics) he acknowledged difficulty to access data simultaneously as the data was stored in different databases on different machines with practically no interaction or connectivity.
He wished to develop a system that would let him quickly and automatically retrieve a mailing address for the receiver of a letter that the might be composing. And he develop a program “Enquire –Within-Upon-Everything” known as Enquire for short, he left CERN soon after the completion of the “Enquire”.

In 1989, He returned back to CERN and witnesses a change in “computing culture” there which revolved around distributed computing and object-oriented programming. Introduction of object oriented technologies by NeXT had made rapid system development and prototyping in a UNIX environment feasible.

In March 1989, He submitted an “ Information Management: A Proposal” highlighting the development of hypertext system that provide a single user-interface to stored information such as reports, notes, data-bases, Computer documentation and online systems help. The proposal’s main objectives were:

• The provision of a simple protocol for requesting human readable information stored in remote systems accessible using networks.
• to provide a protocol by which information could automatically be exchanged in a format common to the information supplier and the information consumer
• the provision of some method of reading text (and possibly graphics) using a large proportion of the display technology in use at CERN at that time
• The provision and maintenance of collections of documents, into which users could place documents of their own.
• To allow documents or collections of documents managed by individuals to be linked by hyperlinks to other documents or collections of documents.
• the provision of a search option, to allow information to be automatically searched for by keywords, in addition to being navigated to by the following of hyperlinks
• To use public domain software wherever possible and to interface to existing proprietary systems.
• To provide the necessary software free of charge.

In 1990, Robert cailliau help Tim to reformulate his proposal and World Wide Web was born as a side effect of the research in particle physics.

reference:
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap1/web_hist.html( link at UTS online Week3:Subject doucment)