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WORLD WIDE WEB

1. On August 6, 1991, the first website http://info.cern,.ch went online.
2. A NeXT computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the  first web browser - WorldWideWeb - in 1990.
3. Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo on the web in 1992. That was an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernetts.
4. It is believed that a turning point in the history of the World Wide Web began with the launch of the Mosaic web browser in 1993. It was a graphical browser developed by a team at the National Center for Supercomputing  Applications at the University of Illinois. Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.
5. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web, was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left CERN in October 1994.
6. Archie is considered to be the first Internet search engine. It was the first tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files.
7. If you dislike Internet users being addressed to as 'surfers', blame Jean Armour Polly. It was she who coined the term "Surfing the Internet".
8. Most people tend to treat the Internet and the Web as synonymous. They, in fact while being related, are not. Internet refers to the vast networking infrastructure that connects millions of computers across the world and the World Wide Web is the worldwide collection of text pages, digital photographs, music files, videos, and animations, which users can access over the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol to transmit data and is only a part of the Internet. The Internet includes a lot that is not necessarily the Web.