sunsite.dk/rfc/rfc1118.html).
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, proposed a project
to develop ???browsers??? for users??™ workstations and a mechanism to allow users to add content that could be
universally accessible over the Internet. The idea was to provide universal readership of information collectively
available on the network.
This idea of the world wide web (WWW) was arguably even more important than the technical miracles
worked by those who developed the protocols and applications of the ARPAnet and NSFnet. The WWW was
conceived as a client??“server arrangement, with browser applications that could present information, regardless
of the origin of the information, running on the client computers. The server applications would be responsible
for extracting information and sending it to the client applications.
At the heart of the WWW was a new protocol called hypertext transport protocol (HTTP). The idea behind
hypertext is that text need not be sequential. A reader should be able to follow links to related information, and
back, in whatever sequence suits the needs of the reader.
By the end of 1989, the small team at CERN had created HTTP and demonstrated the first WWW servers
and a browser.
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