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  #1 Erin B on 27 Sep 10

   

  Flatclassroom: Emergence of the World Wide Web
  In the 1990's the emergence of the Internet as a tool of low-cost global connectivity; the emergence, on top of the Internet, of the World Wibe Web enable people to post their digital content for everyone else to access; and , finally, the spread of the commercial Web browser, which could retrieve documents or Web pages stored in Web sites and display them on any computer screen in such a simple manner that everyone would- and did- want to use it.
  The concept of a WWW was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Berners Lee is someone who certainly helped to flatten the world. He created the WWW and posted the first Web Site in 1991.
  The first big breakthrough to bring the Internet alive as a tool of connectivity and collaboration was Berners-Lee's WWW. Although people often use the terms WWW and Internet interchangeably they are not the same.
  Berners-Lee explains: "The Web is an abstract space of information. On the Net you find computers-on the Web, you find documents, sounds, videos, information. On the Net, the connections are cables between computers; on the Web, connections are hypertext links. The Web exists because of programs which communicate between computers on the Net. The Web could not be without the net. The web made the net useful because people are really interested in info. and don't really want to have to know about computers and cables."

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Flatclassroom: Emergence of the World Wide Web <br /> In the 1990's the emergence of the Internet as a tool of low-cost global connectivity; the emergence, on top of the Internet, of the World Wibe Web enable people to post their digital content for everyone else to access; and , finally, the spread of the commercial Web browser, which could retrieve documents or Web pages stored in Web sites and display them on any computer screen in such a simple manner that everyone would- and did- want to use it. <br /> The concept of a WWW was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Berners Lee is someone who certainly helped to flatten the world. He created the WWW and posted the first Web Site in 1991. <br /> The first big breakthrough to bring the Internet alive as a tool of connectivity and collaboration was Berners-Lee's WWW. Although people often use the terms WWW and Internet interchangeably they are not the same. <br /> Berners-Lee explains: "The Web is an abstract space of information. On the Net you find computers-on the Web, you find documents, sounds, videos, information. On the Net, the connections are cables between computers; on the Web, connections are hypertext links. The Web exists because of programs which communicate between computers on the Net. The Web could not be without the net. The web made the net useful because people are really interested in info. and don't really want to have to know about computers and cables."</div>

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