The World Wide Web
A Brief Discussion
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Introduction
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The purpose of this presentation is
to enlighten or perhaps, simply
share information about a vital
communication tool in the realm of
science and our daily lives: the
World Wide Web
By Benjamin Thayer
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Topics of Discussion
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Who Invented the Web?
Why Do we need a WWW?
How does the Web work?
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Topic One
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Invented by Tim Berner Lee of CERN in 1989.
CERN developed their own Browser, Web
server software, and a library; shortly
thereafter, universities and research
laboratories started using it.
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In America, the first Web server came online
by, yet again, another pure research
institute, Stanford Linear Accelerator
Institute (SLAC) in California, Dec. 1991.
Several other organizations started
releasing their version of Web browser, so
that in late1993, there were over 500 known
web servers and WWW accounted for 1% of
Internet traffic!
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In 1994, the “Year of The Web” was hosted by CERN to
establish rules and organizations that could run the web.
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Make sure that the WWW staid on open ended standard—
meaning that any one could use the Web and no-one could
lock up the system for proprietary gains.
In January 1995, the International World-Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) was founded.
W3C, is run jointly by MIT/LCS in the United States, INRIA
in France, and Keio University in Japan, in 2002 had more
than 500 Member organizations from around the world.
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Topic One
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This is how we got the World Wide
Web as we see it today…cool!
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Topic Two
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Why Do we need a WWW?
Science is a community effort. It depend upon free access
and exchange of ideas.
Problem: To much info, and no way to communicate it.
Solution: The WWW offers a direct, expedient, and
convenient method for sharing ideas with other individuals
(e.g. scientist, researchers, even classroom lectures,)
while spanning the distance of the entire globe.
If it were not for the Web, it is a fairly safe assumption the
world would not have seen the leap and bounds in the
scientific frontier as we’ve seen in the past decade.
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Topic Three
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How does the Web work?
To explain this, we need to know what the Internet is?
Think of the Web and Internet as a global road system.
On the Internet, as in the road system, three elements are
essential: the physical connection (roads and services,)
the common behavior (circulation and Internet Protocol,)
and the services (mail delivery and WWW.)
Once we’ve connected to the Internet, next we need a
browser
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Analogy
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Special Features
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The Web is network friendly
It is the ability of the Web to
negotiate formats btwn. client and
server that allow the shipment of
any type of document (e.g. video,
sound, journals, etc…)
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Conclusion
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Though originally conceived by scientists for
scientists, the universal access and functionality of
the World Wide Web has revolutionized the way
information is transferred and how the world
communicates.
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