HISTORY OF WWW (WEBSITE)
The World Wide Web (" WWW " or simply the " Web ") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet . The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web . Web is the global information system. Precursors The hypertext portion of the Web in particular has an intricate intellectual history; notable influences and precursors include Vannevar Bush 's Memex , [3] IBM's Generalized Markup Language , [4] and Ted Nelson 's Project Xanadu . [3] Paul Otlet 's Mundaneum project has also been named as an early 20th century precursor of the Web. [5] The concept of a global information system connecting homes is ...
