THE WWW BLOG - Best Internet For me

We all browse the web, chat with friends and many of us make a living out of it. But this remains a fact that we know very little about the Internet, things about the past on the web and some names which are relevant to it. Following below are some of the interesting facts about the Internet and the Web.

1. Who invented the World Wide Web?

It was Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented it in March 1989. Sir Lee is a British engineer and scientist, and now is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He then received a knighthood in 2004 from Queen Elizabeth II.

2. Surfing the Internet

We often talk about surfing the Internet, a common phrase used when someone asks what are you doing. Isn’t it? This is not a phrase that came from no where. It was Jean Armour Polly, also called as Net-mom, who coined it. It was an article from her in 1992, titled “Surfing the Internet,” and since then, this one is one of the most commonly used phrases about the Internet activity.

3. Aren’t Internet and Web the same?

While we mentioned both the words “Internet” and “Web”, there is a reason behind that. It was just to tell that both have different meanings. Internet is the networking infrastructure responsible for making connections between the computers, while “Web” is just a part of the Internet, where all the information is stored in form of pages, files and such.

4. The first website to go online?

It is http://info.cern.ch and it was made online on August 6, 1991. Visit the website and check how the first website looked like, and you can even watch using a line-mode browser simulator.

5. How old is the Internet today?

There is a website for it. Yes, nothing else is there but the age of the Internet. You can check that here. What is more interesting is a question given there, asking “What have you done today to make it better?”.

6. Did Facebook always look like it is currently?

No not at all. The current Facebook design is not what it was even a few months back. So when Facebook was new to the Internet, in 2004, it looked like this.