Web design history

The World Wide Web developed from a scientist's interest to explore communication methods via the computer network.

Tim Berners-Lee (now the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C ) is credited with having created the World Wide Web while he was a researcher at Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), an European High-Energy Particle Physics research facility, in Geneva, Switzerland . A solution was needed to enable collaboration between physicists and other researchers in the high energy physics community. Tim Berners-Lee was interested in the ability to link academic papers electronically and to utilize the Internet to correspond to people in other laboratories around the world.

Tim worked on the standard hypertext markup language (known as HTML ) protocol and also on a browser program which converts the HTML into screen based text. The first browser program was capable of viewing text documents only, but from a range of different computer platforms.

Internet started its engines since the late 1960's and had been utilized for data transfer between computers via the telephone network system. The data transfer was carried out by using TCP /IP ( transmission control protocol/ Internet protocol ) which was developed by Advanced Research and Projects Agency. The TCP /IP was developed for US military reasons but was later utilized by academia in Universities. The point is that there was a lot of interest in this area and that's also one of the reasons determining Tim to continue working on the project.

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal called HyperText and CERN and circulated his proposal for comments at CERN in 1989. The proposal was the solution to the technologies that would enable collaboration in the high energy physics community. Tim had a background in text processing, communications, and real-time software. The proposal was further refined by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990 .

The 1990s delivered a lot of business to graphic designers. Because of the Internet, companies rushed to find somebody capable of giving them a presence online. Whether a logo, animation, corporate identities, or customer service management, the Internet delivered a lot of work and it was a work paid very well.

Anyway, back to Berners-Lee 's proposal - that was an extension of the gopher idea but also incorporated many new ideas and features (it was also inspired from another concept that involved hypertext and also from the work of Ted Nelson's on Xanadu ).