FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY

WORLD WIDE WEB

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The World Wide Web is ____ years old in 2019.
A
20
B
30
C
40
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -To celebrate 30 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal and to kick-start a series of celebrations worldwide, CERN hosted a 30th Anniversary event in the morning of 12 March 2019 in partnership with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and with the World Wide Web Foundation .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 and opened to the public in 1991. It was conceived as a “universal linked information system".

Detailed explanation-3: -Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why did no one listen? In 1994-before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer-Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990. Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined important terms behind the Web.

There is 1 question to complete.