1. Home
  2. IT
  3. Software technologies and System architectures
  4. Introduction to the World Wide Web

  5. The World Wide Web Consortium

Article | REF: H2908 V2

Introduction to the World Wide Web

Author: Bernard MARTIN

Publication date: May 10, 2001 | Lire en français

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

Automatically translated using artificial intelligence technology (Note that only the original version is binding) > find out more.

    A  |  A

    1. The World Wide Web Consortium

    Importance of the Web

    The Web really came into its own in 1993, when the Mosaic consultation software developed at the NCSA (National Center for Computing Applications) was made available on the Internet. By 1996, there were several million Web browsers in use around the world, and over two hundred thousand servers offering users a wide variety of information: presentation of the Musée du Louvre, access to the Library of Congress, electronic newspapers, and more. Figure 1 illustrates the explosion in the number of sites worldwide in the 1990s. By 2000, several thousand new Web servers were appearing every day.

    The importance of the Web is mainly due to :

    ...
    You do not have access to this resource.

    Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

    You do not have access to this resource.
    Click here to request your free trial access!

    Already subscribed? Log in!

    The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

    A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
    + More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
    From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

    This article is included in

    Software technologies and System architectures

    This offer includes:

    Knowledge Base

    Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

    Services

    A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

    Practical Path

    Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

    Doc & Quiz

    Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

    Subscribe now!

    Ongoing reading
    The World Wide Web Consortium
    Outline