After the dot-com burst, the web became more and more popular although lots of businesses tried to persuade people it went bankrupt. Many businesses would not exist if it wasn't for the world wide web, and therefore rely on users and the internet. These includes applications used for downloading music such as Apples Itunes, web based travel companies such as Expedia and companies set up to sel and auction items, such as Amazon and Ebay.
Recently, the world wide web has seen as massive spurt of social networking websites, which are an extensive part of culture for the youth. These sites include Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and Friendster.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Dot Com
In 1998 and 1999, the low interest rates helped increase the start-up capital amounts. Most of the new entrepreneurs lacked these characterisitics so they sold thier ideas to investors because of the "dot-com" novelty concept.
In 2001, many dot-com startups went out of business after burning through thier venture capital and failing to make a profit.
In 2001, many dot-com startups went out of business after burning through thier venture capital and failing to make a profit.
Commercilisation
By the mid nineties , companies learned that the presence of the web was the way forward to use there business. At first the web was seen as mainly a source of free publishing and information, two way communciation was seen as a possibiliity, as was ecommerce (web based commerce) . This attracted many young clever people, realising that new business opportunities may arise based on mainly ecommerce, but also a bit of two-way communcation.
In 1995, an annual event named the Webby Awards was created, made to find the best websites on the World wide web and is held in San Francisco, California.
In 1995, an annual event named the Webby Awards was created, made to find the best websites on the World wide web and is held in San Francisco, California.
Growth
Early adopters of the World wide web were mainly university based scientific departments and laboratries such as Fermilab and SLAC. These departments created websites with links for both HTTP and Gopher protocol, which provided access to content of the web through hypertext menus presented as a file system rather than through HTML files.
In April 1992, Erwise was released which is an application created at the Univirsity of Technology in Helsinki. In May, Pei-Yuan Wei created ViolaWWW which included advanced features like embedded graphics, animation and scripting.
In 1993 Mosaic was created. This was a web browser made by a team at the National Centre of Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina were both students at the Univeristy of Illinois released an X Windows browser in Febuary in 1993. This browser gained alot of popularity because of its strong support of integrated multimedia. When Andreessen graduated, him and Jim Clark met and created Mosaic Communications Corporation to develop the browser commercially. It then changed its name to the more well known Netscape in April 1994.
Microsoft created a browser called Cello, which was written by Thomas Bruce for the Cornell Law School to provide the school with legal information, as most lawyers had access to windows. Cello was released commerically in June 1993
In April 1992, Erwise was released which is an application created at the Univirsity of Technology in Helsinki. In May, Pei-Yuan Wei created ViolaWWW which included advanced features like embedded graphics, animation and scripting.
In 1993 Mosaic was created. This was a web browser made by a team at the National Centre of Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina were both students at the Univeristy of Illinois released an X Windows browser in Febuary in 1993. This browser gained alot of popularity because of its strong support of integrated multimedia. When Andreessen graduated, him and Jim Clark met and created Mosaic Communications Corporation to develop the browser commercially. It then changed its name to the more well known Netscape in April 1994.
Microsoft created a browser called Cello, which was written by Thomas Bruce for the Cornell Law School to provide the school with legal information, as most lawyers had access to windows. Cello was released commerically in June 1993
Development
Tim Berners-Lee was an English contracter at CERN in Switzerand. In 1980 he built Enquire which was a personal database of people and software models, but also experimenting with HTTP. In Enquire, pages were linked together, like an internet browser. However, it was more like a wiki.
In 1984, Tim Berners-Lee went back to CERN with physicists from around the world to share data on information presentation. In March 1989, he wrote a proposal for a hypertext database with typed links, but however it created very little interest.
His boss Mike Sendal encouraged Tim to start to implement his system on a "Next" workstation. After considering many names, including "Information Mesh" and "Mine of Information", he settled on calling it the World Wide Web.
Robert Cailliau was an enthusiatic collaborator and he rewrote Tim's proposal and they both gave there ideas to the European conference on Hypertext Technology in September 1990, but found nobody who would share there vision of implementing hypertext with the internet.
In 1984, Tim Berners-Lee went back to CERN with physicists from around the world to share data on information presentation. In March 1989, he wrote a proposal for a hypertext database with typed links, but however it created very little interest.
His boss Mike Sendal encouraged Tim to start to implement his system on a "Next" workstation. After considering many names, including "Information Mesh" and "Mine of Information", he settled on calling it the World Wide Web.
Robert Cailliau was an enthusiatic collaborator and he rewrote Tim's proposal and they both gave there ideas to the European conference on Hypertext Technology in September 1990, but found nobody who would share there vision of implementing hypertext with the internet.
Introduction
The world wide web (other wise known as the "web" or WWW) is a massive source of information of which people can access through computers using the internet. The world wide web and internet are often confused as the same thing, but the internet is actually the gateway to the world wide web and email. The history of the internet dates back to the 1950's, whereas the origins of the world wide web trace back to 1980. This blog wil take you through the history of the world wide web in easy to learn steps..
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