How the World Wide Web started

History of the Web

The Web was born at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva 1989 and was invented by Englishman
Tim Berners-Lee

He believed that there was "a need for a collaborative knowledge-sharing tool" to support scientific work in an international context.

Later in 1994 the Mosaic browser computer program transformed the Internet from an academic tool into a telecommunications revolution.

The World Wide Web is now part of the modern communications landscape with thousands of servers providing information to millions of users, grown under the guidance of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C is a volunteer organisation based at Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT) and has the responsibility for developing and maintaining common standards.

http://www.w3.org/

The next important development was the development of graphical browsers in the early 90s.

Beginning with NCSA'S Mosaic and onto Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer

These browsers provided a user friendly environment to surf the internet and marked the beginning of the true web revolution!

First web browser 1993:

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-06/993087896.Cs.r.html