The web turns, launched in 1990, turns 25 on March 12 2014.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, once proposed an information sharing and management system between various physicists in universities and institutes around the world. This led to the invention of the World Wide Web. Although we refer to the web as the Internet, they are two separate things totally. The Internet is the infrastructure spread around the world on which the World Wide Web services are run, which include emails, messaging, VoIP, and a lot more. In the past 25 years, there has been a tremendous change to the WWW. It has evolved with great potential and creativity.
It all began in 1989 when Tim proposed the idea to CERN, and the first web server and web site was hosted in 1990 from his computer. A year later, the web browser and web editor was created. Linus Torvalds then released the first Linux-based kernel which went on to become the de-facto web server software thereon. As time went on, the word spread and people started taking this seriously as an information sharing platform. In 1994, Yahoo! (formerly known as Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web) comes up as the initial search directory for other websites. Java (Sun Microsystems) was implemented in 1995, and so was Wikipedia, eBay and Amazon. PayPal hit the stage in 1999, Skype in 2003, Flickr in and Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005, and Twitter followed a year later.
On an average, it is estimated that close to 40 percent of the world’s population (two billion people) are online each day.
