The World Wide Web was proposed by British software engineer Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he worked at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics). He designed the first web server software, W3C, httpd, and web browsers. The philosophy of designing this software was to share the world's information through a hypertext system and network connection. This proposal was fully implemented in the late summer of 1991, with the first web page being brought online on August 6th of that year. Although this idea was first mentioned in the 1960s, Tim Berners-Lee was the one who made the system work.

The Internet long predated the World Wide Web, but until the World Wide Web became available in the early-to-mid 1990s, the Internet was mostly text-based, and there were not graphic interfaces. Images and video files were available on the internet before WWW, but these were available as files that could be downloaded, rather than as images that appeared on a computer screen in a web browser as one clicked through directories. Also, Hypertext had existed and been widely available (at least to Macintosh users) since 1987, when Apple introduced HyperCard and its HyperTalk programming language. However, the creation of the World Wide Web with HTML and HTTPD create a revolution in the Internet and human life. In the initial months after the creation of the Word Wide Web, many scientists, creative artists, and persons in academia, who had long been using the Internet and online bulletin boards to exchange ideas, data, and artistic products, resented and protested against the rapid commercialization of the World Wide Web. Some people feared the Internet would become just another shopping mall filled with advertising and promotions for shoddy products and dodgy services. As it has turned out, this nightmare could not be avoided; however, the World Wide Web has also enabled many beautiful and life-enhancing innovations as well.

When we make a web page which can be linked to the network, it must comply with the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). Only a page with this label can be interpreted by the browser. Using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) to edit web content is a production standard syntax which mainly uses source code to create a multifunctional file; the content of said file can be displayed with text, images, video, or graphics. The editor can also change the color of the text when writing web pages. The latest version of the editing software has the function in addition to links to other web pages, you also can preview your page, to what you see is what you get. We can not deny that Tim Berners-Lee plays an very important role in the rapid grow of internet network globally .

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