Father of the World Wide Web, The World’s First Website

Father of the World Wide Web, The World's First Website

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What Inspired this BlogPostCard:

Today morning, from my BoingBoing (one of the world's most famous blogs) RSS feed, I came across  a link to an  article written by Sir Tim Berners Lee himself – Long Live the Web published on Scientific American.

On a side note, to make the blogpostcard more exciting, I'm thinking of redesigning the information presentation in a more lateral way (meaning not in a linear fashion as you see it now). Actually, the whole concept of a blogpostcard was that – information presented in a condensed yet radical visual format for easy assimilation. I think I'm yet to reach that zenith.

Sir Tim Berners Lee -  Creator o f the World Wide Web

Recent Quote:
"The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990.  It consisted of one Web site and one browser, which happened to be on the same computer. The simple setup demonstrated a profound concept: that any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere.

Born: 1955, London, England

He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class degree in Physics.

The Hypertext (linking) Idea
While an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.

World's First Website
In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da! — the World Wide Web."

The first web site built was at CERN, and was first put online on 6 August 1991. Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server