1 August is observed annually as World Wide Web Day. A day to appreciate web browsing, the online activity that puts the world at your fingertips and places a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips.
The theme of World Wide Web Day 2022
Every year, we celebrate World Wide Web Day on 1 August. The day doesn’t have a theme.
Quick facts World Wide Web
Here are quick facts about the World Wide Web:
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT computer as his first web server.
- This computer was also used to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb.
- It was announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone in 1993.
- The Mosaic web browser was a major turning point for the World Wide Web when it came out in 1993. The World Wide Web was popularized by it.
- The first popular search engine was Yahoo! Search, but Archie is believed to be the first. This was the first FTP archive indexing tool, so people could find specific files.
History of World Wide Web Day
The World Wide Web is a revolutionary technology that led to thousands of other inventions we use every day. However, it took a few years before the World Wide Web was noticed by the masses. Developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the WWW was enhanced by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist and informatics engineer. In early 1992, they released the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) together. WWW was initially made for physicists to share data, like many other great technologies.
When the World Wide Web hit the general public, it was a hit. Back then, it was a luxury, but now it’s a necessity. After the first website was made and photos started showing up online, the platform took off. Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo in 1992. By the mid-1990s, the World Wide Web had accumulated millions of active users, making it the fastest-growing medium of communication. By the 21st century, web usage transcended into advanced smartphones that ran like computers. Almost anything can access the World Wide Web these days, including gaming devices, cell phones, laptops, and watches.
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