10 Things To Know On Web's 25th Birthday


 

#7. Before inventing the web, people could publish their creations and thoughts only if they could influence the media to give them prominence. The web has provided the people with a universal publishing platform for uploading their write up, audio, video and photographs.

#8. The term web and internet are often mistaken for the same thing. While web is a global medium where users can read and write via computer that is connected to the internet, on the other hand internet is the networking infrastructure where millions of computers are interconnected.

#9. Many of the things that are built on the web browser are neither open nor free. Regardless of the fact that anyone can launch own websites, the majority of the top 100 websites are operated by corporations. The only real exemption is Wikipedia.

#10. To create common standards for core web technology, in 1994 Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web Consortium. The main objective of this organization was to make the web browser available to all people around the world. In 2008, Berners-Lee again launched a World Web Foundation for establishing the open web as a global public good and also for ensuring that anyone can have free access to the web.

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