Before the internet, there was a time when researchers used to write their papers on physical paper. To share those papers, they have to send them physically; and once the paper was received the sender can’t make edits.
After the introduction of personal computers, the sharing of information became painless. Once they established a network, they could share files between them.
The idea of sharing files or say research papers across universities and countries originated and this is how the INTERNET came into existence.
At that time, there was a need for a type of file that could contain all the things that a research paper has such as
headings
subheadings
italic and bold words in a line
diagram and images
and the list can go on and on…
A text document was unable to fulfill these requirements.
In 1993, a smart and intelligent guy invented HTML documents a type of file that could have all the things that a nice and awesome research paper has.
To write such types of files one had to follow the rules of HTML.
It became the building block of web pages.
⚡The awesome thing that HTML documents facilitated was embedding links to other documents.
Computers were upgraded and a method was developed to share files across universities.
Now, if a researcher wants to share his papers, he/she could create a special folder “The_Server” on his computer, with all the papers into it written in HTML.
Then he/she could share his computer’s IP address with the public or selected individuals.
⚡ Creating a folder named “The_Server” on your computer will not do work. I have tried to make it simple, so that you get an idea about how the things work. Here, IP address is synonym to links ( URLs )
Now the reader enters the IP address of his favorite researcher into the browser and was able to read their papers.
A paper used to have links, that directs them to other research papers for reference. One can easily read a lot of related papers on a single computer screen.
This was revolutionizing 🔥.
In a few years, thousands of HTML documents were created and connected to each other through links. And this is why the term “World Wide Web” came into existence.
That researcher’s computer is known as a server because it is ‘serving’ the files requested through its IP address.
An HTML file opened in the browser is known as a web page.
It can be considered a collection of web pages.
Click Here to visit the world’s first website
Read Here, the brief history of the Internet
Click Here to know, How the internet was invented
⚡ In the next blog, we will be learning about how to create your first HTML file or first website.