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August 6th 1991 is the date of birth of the now widely used World Wide Web. The date which has thrown open thte doors of freedom of information. The world became a global village because of Worl Wide Web. On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published a report of World Wide Web (WWW) and made internet available to the public. WWW took technology to a different direction and connected people in a way which was beyond imagination.

Here is the timeline of World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee had made a project in 1980 which was about readable texts embedded in links

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal of WWW in a descriptive format.

Initially he thought of the names like, Information Mesh. The Information Mine and Mine of Information.

In 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau, Lee built a Hypertext project WorldWideWeb which could be accessed through a browser

In 1991, Tim published a short summary of WWW and internet was made accessible to the public

In 1993, CERN announced that internet would be free to everyone and there would be no fee for its use

In 1994, many websites erupted and the internet service got popular

In 1999, Darci DiNucci coined the term Web 2.0 which was later popularised in the year 2004

Its due to Web 2.0 that we see user-generated content, better usability, user friendly and two way communication on the Web

Berners Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 for his work

The technological revolution in 1991 provided with just one website and now, in 2015 there are about billion websites on the web.

By Premji