World Wide Web
Two central ideas:
- Hypertext
- A document containing links to other documents
- Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
- A formal way of identifying links to other documents
Invention of WWW (1989)
- By Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland
First graphical browser, Mosaic, (1993)
- By Marc Andressen at NCSA in USA; later founded Netscape
CERN - Centre Européan pour Rechèrche Nucleaire
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications