Monday, March 11, 2019

WWW: Where Are We Today?



Today on 30th anniversary of World Wide Web (www) I realize what our lives would have been without this invention. World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wrote his first web browser in 1990 while employed in CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It was released to general public in August 1991. This was the beginning of “A New revolution”.

This is commonly known as ‘web”, basically a space to store the documents and data. These are accessible via internet connection and the data is used to operate this web. These are used by applications called “Web Browsers”, like Internet explorer, Mozilla and Chrome.  These web browsers are identified by Uniform Resource Locators; these are accessible via internet connections. These web browsers stored the web sites which could be opened on request. These websites contained the necessary data, images and documents. These websites have unique domain name which were used to open them on the web browsers.

By 1988, the first direct IP connection between Europe and North America came into being and in 1989; Tim Berners Lee issued a proposal for the possibility of a web-like system called “MESH

Just imagine what our lives would have been without this invention. No Wattsapp ! No Face book! No Emails ! No No No ! What a peace of mind!  I still imagine those days when children used to play outdoor games, read novels and books, and above all when people used to chitchat with their friends in the evening in gardens and balconies. Our mothers and grandmothers used to spend time in making sweaters, doing embroideries etc because they were not busy on mobiles andlaptops.

I still remember as a child when I used to play games like Gulli-Danda, Dibba-down, express, badminton, Galli-cricket, cycling etc. There was only one cycle in the family of four children and we used to take rounds in shifts. Today, after visualizing all these small and young children suffering from mobile-addiction and laptop-addiction, I feel that those old days should come back and the whole world should be blessed with happiness again.

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