The Web

Regardless of one growing up with computers or being introduced to them at a later age, imagining a world without internet is a difficult idea to comprehend. Internet plays a number of roles in the society today, ranging from research and educative purposes to social interaction with one another. The internet being hardly fifty years old, and world wide web almost thirty years since its emergence, the disappearance of either of them will mean a collapse in the business world. Despite the differences between the internet and the web, the two form a powerful system that has rapidly developed over the ages with yet a promising future.
The world wide web, was created with the intention of aiding the navigation through the system of interconnected computers, forming the internet (Gillies & Cailliau, 2000). Tim Berners-Lee, while working with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, developed ‘Enquire,’ a hypertext program. Teaming up with Robert Cailliau in 1990, Berners, generated the outline of the internet having a web server and a browser.