Lex 2-1 of 2

Lex 2-1 of 2

10 Things I Didn’t Know About Tim Berners-Lee and his history regarding the WWW.

For a start, in my ignorance, I must admit that I had never heard of him until this class.

According to Hofstetter, in 1989 Berners-Lee developed HTML for the World Wide Web.

I now know HTML means hypertext markup language, a standard format used for hypertext documents on the Web.

I now know hypertext means certain words in a document can be linked into additional information related to the word.

I also have a better understanding of the World Wide Web as a network hypertext system allowing users access to billions of web pages & other type files.

According to the New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, published in 2004 (p. 654), the World Wide Web was invented by Berners-Lee in 1989 at Switzerland’s CERN Particle Physics Library.

Berners-Lee began working in computer science in the 1970’s (NYT, p. 966).

He also wrote programs for the first web server & web browser (NYT, p.966).

I understand that a web server is a stand-alone computer-like my home computer-and can receive input from various browsers.

Web browsers are software that enables my computer to download different programs.