Happy WWW Day!

(Photo caption: Early version of our own website, yourplanb.com January 1997)

World Wide Web Day, marking the birth of the Web in August 1990 at the Europe Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau developed a prototype Web browser and introduced Hypertext Markup Language, HTML.

The first website was published on August 6, 1991 and served up a page explaining the World Wide Web project and giving information on how users could setup a web server and how to create their own websites and web pages, as well as how they could search the web for information. The World Wide Web was released to the public domain on April 30, 1993, allowing users to create websites with hyperlinks, audio, and graphics. By late 1993, there were more than 500 known web servers, and the World Wide Web accounted for 1% of internet traffic.

The World Wide Web (‘WWW’ or simply the ‘Web’) is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.

We both were involved very early with the Web.  Freelancing for Chicago based companies in 1994 and then setting up shop (YourPlanB.com) in 1997.

Raise a glass – Hip Hip Hooray for WWW

 

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