History

Internet

Evolution of networks

From military to universities

Initial ideas

Memex

CERN and Lee, 1989

and the boom

World Wide Web

Web Basics

HTML

Hypertext markup language

Anatomy of an HTML element

Sample document

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>My test page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>This is a paragraph</p>
  </body>
</html>

Web browser

Server and client

Web server

URL/URI

Uniform Resource Identifier/Locator

Hyperlinks and hypertext

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">
  Learn about World Wide Web
</a>

HTTP

Hypertext transfer protocol

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

Sample CSS

p {
  color: red;
}

History, continued

Hyperlinks make the web

The Internet map

CERN made everything open and publicly available

Emergence of search engines and directories

The boom

banks and stores, chat, learn, talk, etc.

Browser wars and W3C standards

One web: How the web is created?

World Wide Web Consortium

Some links

Cursor as an example:
- Unprefix CSS “grab” and “grabbing” Values for Cursor Property - Chrome Platfo…
- cursor - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

Learn to learn

Learn to read the docs

Future of the Web

Open and free nature of the Web

Non-proprietary
Interoperable
Far-reaching
Decentralized power
Equality
Paper-free

Latest Web technologies

Progressive Web Apps
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
WebRTC
WebAssembly
Web of Things
Web of Payments
TV and streaming

Protect the web

Net neutrality
Accessibility
Security
Trust

“The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge [and] to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.”

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

Mission

Advance the Web
Connect Humanity
Empower People