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Foil 8 Historical Overview of World Wide Web and Mosaic -- I

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Today's Explosion of use of the Internet stems from two developments
  • The World Wide Web (WWW) which established Universal Naming and Access of Computer Resources and
  • Mosaic the first easily available powerful program to browse these resources
World Wide Web Project at CERN 1989
  • Started by HIgh Energy Physicists (HEP) in CERN, Geneva
  • Spearheaded by Tim Berners-Lee
  • The goal was to allow large (upto 1000 PhD's) geographically distributed HEP collaborations, exchange text (papers) and pictures (plots, diagrams etc.)

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