ticle Physics (formerly known as CERN), then developed a way for scientists to lay out articles so that anyone else in the world could read them. He developed the first Internet browser, and also designed it so that any article could be linked to any other article with a system of “hyperlinks.” This system was given the common name of World Wide Web. The “World Wide Web” as defined by Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopaedia is a “system of resources that enable computer users to view and interact with a variety of information, including magazine archives, public- and university-library resources, current world and business news, and software programs. The WWW can be accessed by a computer connected to an Internet, an interconnection of computer networks or through the public Internet, the global consortium of interconnected computer networks. Web pages designed for the World Wide Web, are created using a format known as Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), and this data is transferred among computers using a system known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Other features may be added to html pages using special programs, one example is Java, which was developed by Sun Microsystems, it is a programming language which runs independently, regardless of the operating system. Java enabled web browsers use applets that run within an html formatted document. This allows more interactivity and animation within web pages. Making it AvailableThe only thing left to do was to make the Internet available to the people. Near the beginning of the 1990s, large bulletin board systems (like America Online, GEnie, and CompuServe) began to offer their Internet access services to the general public. Universities, community centres, and libraries began to invest in freenets, which allowed users to dial into servers using a modem and get the best the Internet had to offer. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) began to appear all over...
