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The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web. A Brief Discussion. Introduction. The purpose of this presentation is to enlighten or perhaps, simply share information about a vital communication tool in the realm of science and our daily lives: the World Wide Web By Benjamin Thayer. Topics of Discussion.

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The World Wide Web

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  1. The World Wide Web A Brief Discussion

  2. Introduction • The purpose of this presentation is to enlighten or perhaps, simply share information about a vital communication tool in the realm of science and our daily lives: the World Wide Web • By Benjamin Thayer

  3. Topics of Discussion • Who Invented the Web? • Why Do we need a WWW? • How does the Web work?

  4. Topic One • Invented by Tim Berner Lee of CERN in 1989. • CERN developed their own Browser, Web server software, and a library; shortly thereafter, universities and research laboratories started using it.

  5. Topic One • In America, the first Web server came online by, yet again, another pure research institute, Stanford Linear Accelerator Institute (SLAC) in California, Dec. 1991. • Several other organizations started releasing their version of Web browser, so that in late1993, there were over 500 known web servers and WWW accounted for 1% of Internet traffic!

  6. Topic One • In 1994, the “Year of The Web” was hosted by CERN to establish rules and organizations that could run the web. • Make sure that the WWW staid on open ended standard—meaning that any one could use the Web and no-one could lock up the system for proprietary gains. • In January 1995, the International World-Wide Web Consortium(W3C) was founded. • W3C, is run jointly by MIT/LCS in the United States, INRIA in France, and Keio University in Japan, in 2002 had more than 500 Member organizations from around the world.

  7. Topic One • This is how we got the World Wide Web as we see it today…cool!

  8. Topic Two • Why Do we need a WWW? • Science is a community effort. It depend upon free access and exchange of ideas. • Problem: To much info, and no way to communicate it. • Solution: The WWW offers a direct, expedient, and convenient method for sharing ideas with other individuals (e.g. scientist, researchers, even classroom lectures,) while spanning the distance of the entire globe. • If it were not for the Web, it is a fairly safe assumption the world would not have seen the leap and bounds in the scientific frontier as we’ve seen in the past decade.

  9. Topic Three • How does the Web work? • To explain this, we need to know what the Internet is? • Think of the Web and Internet as a global road system. • On the Internet, as in the road system, three elements are essential: the physical connection (roads and services,) the common behavior (circulation and Internet Protocol,) and the services (mail delivery and WWW.) • Once we’ve connected to the Internet, next we need a browser

  10. Analogy

  11. Special Features • The Web is network friendly • It is the ability of the Web to negotiate formats btwn. client and server that allow the shipment of any type of document (e.g. video, sound, journals, etc…)

  12. Conclusion • Though originally conceived by scientists for scientists, the universal access and functionality of the World Wide Web has revolutionized the way information is transferred and how the world communicates.

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