In general networks have been around us since the early days of human race and we can say that there are only a few skills as human as organizational or social skills.That tendency has, through history, helped people creating highly sophisticated networks such as traffic network (i.e. highways), food delivery network or communication network but there is one network that nowadays stands above them all, the Internet.Internet is a global network of many inter-connected computers or networks that communicate to each other via protocols, particularly TCP/IP, and serve data of different types to millions and billions of users. That collection of data or information is usually referenced as “The Web”.

The Web is a common name for the World Wide Web, shortly WWW or W3, a network of linked hypertext documents, viewed by a browser, located on a client computer, and served or accessed by a serving computer or a server. The “documents” may refer to any type or media there is, such as text, images, video and others.The name, World Wide Web, is coined in 1990 by a CERN (Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire or European Centre for Nuclear Research) researcher Tim Barnes-Lee. The name was chosen over number of proposals, such as Information Mesh or Information Mine.The whole project was initially proposed by Tim under the name HyperText at CERN and was meant to be a tool enabling collaboration amongst researchers at CERN but also used as data sharing tool between other researches centers from around the world. After an approval by Tim’s boss Mike Sendall, the project could start.Original idea was based on Ted Nelson’s work on Xanadu but with added a few new technologies. Basically they were HTML or HyperText Markup Language used for writing the web documents, HTTP or HyperText Transfer Protocol used for transmitting the pages, and a web browser program used for receiving and interpreting data and displaying results. A browser would be flexible enough to enable clients approaching data from many different types of computers.

In 1991 the system was successfully tested on a computer network at CERN labs, Switzerland, and first documents availability was announced in UseNET newsgroupalt.hypertext later on that year. All data was placed on one main PC at CERN which was named web server due the fact it was serving-up data. Later, in 1992, there were already 50 servers around the globe, mostly installed in various research centers.To round up the Web’s start up years we have to mention the first Browser that appeared in 1993. The browser was introduced by Marc Andreesen and his team who, working for National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), developed a graphic interface browser named Mosaic. Due its graphical user interface (GUI), the browser became immediately popular and helped Marc Andreesen and James Clark launch a company known as Netscape that was the first leader in Web browsing industry and creator of many popular development standards and tools, such as JavaScript, SSL and more.

The rest is history...