Google Doodle marks 30 years of World Wide Web; Here are some interesting things to know about WWW

There are over 1 billion websites on the World Wide Web today, as per reports. The first ever website was CERN.

Google Doodle celebrate 30 years of WWW

New Delhi: The World Wide Web turned 30 years old on Tuesday and the search engine giant Google dedicated a doodle to mark the day. It was in the year 1989 when English Scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW in 1989 and wrote the first web browser in 1990, and after which the field of communication was revolutionised to entirety. Here are some things to know about WWW:

• The WWW, commonly known as the Web, is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
• The first web browser was released in 1991 - first to the research institutions and then to the general public on the Internet in the same year.
• In addition to text, web pages may contain images, video, audio and software components that are rendered in the user's web browser as coherent pages of multimedia content.
• The WWW is the primary tool billions of people today use to interact on the Internet.
• There are over 1 billion websites on the World Wide Web today.
• Archie was the first ever search engine known
• Working at CERN, Switzerland, Berners-Lee laid out the basic concepts of the WWW in a proposal which included ideas like HTML, URL and HTTP.
• In a document titled "Information management: a proposal", he envisioned the use of hypertext to link documents.
• Before the WWW, remote computers communicated directly for the first time in 1969 and in 1983, TCP/IP standard was adopted.