January 17, 2008

How the web got started

The internet was conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee from the UK but had some of the wrinkles ironed out by him and Robert Cailliau a year later.

From this point things began to take off fairly quickly by the standards of the day with the basic software being completed and ready for action by the end of the year. By 1991 the first web server had been put online and this is the real beginning because things start to get interesting from this point.

But by the end 1994 there were over ten thousand servers and ten million users, and this were it all really started with commercial interests coming onto to the net in fact 2,000 of the servers were commercial and the rest is history from there.

Source [CERN]