That work was later used as the foundation for the development of a global hypertext system – popularly known as the Internet or the World Wide Web.

The WWW was developed to increase the ease with which people could exchange information. This became a reality with the introduction of the first WYSWIG (What You See Is What You Get) hypertext web browser which was written by Tim Berners-Lee.

The advantage of the WWW over previous systems was the lack of a need for a centralized server. In short, this meant that it was just as easy to retrieve, as well as link to, a document that was down the hall as across the world.

This was a huge breakthrough in computing science.

The Web and the first web server were released to the hypertext communities in mid 1991, after being released within CERN in late 1990. In order to achieve a coherent standard for the WWW, specifications for URLs, HTML and HTTP were published.

The universality forced by these specifications, the non-dependence on a central server and decision by Berners-Lee not to profit from the WWW led to a high level of adoption of the technology between 1991-94. A ten fold increase in annual traffic was recorded on the first Web server during this period.

With the advent of the Web, a number of spin-off technologies have emerged. A vast array of server side, client side and database languages have been created to fulfill needs of businesses and individuals.

There are two types of programming languages used on the WWW: client-side and server-side.

A client-side language is executed in the users’ browser and is not dependent upon the Web server. Client-side programming is done almost exclusively with JavaScript.

A server-side language executes on the Web server. In recent years server-side programming has become more popular than client-side programming because it is independent of the type of browser that the surfer is using. Programmers refer to this as being ‘cross-platform’. Perl, PHP, ASP and JSP are popular client-side programming languages.

Databases have been developed to allow for ‘dynamic’ websites.

Dynamic websites allow for a high level of personalization when retrieving information.

Whenever you type in values in a form on a web page – whether those values are for a user id and password, the characteristics of your ideal partner or an author’s name – it’s a ‘dynamic’ web site. That is just a way of saying that there is a database being used to run the website.

Popular databases used include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

An area of the WWW that Berners-Lee has direct involvement is in his role as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) which has existed since 1994.

The aim of the WC3 is to achieve coherent standards between all companies using web technologies such as HTML, CSS and XML. Prior to the creation of the standards detailed by the WC3, companies used different standards, which led to potential incompatibilities. The WC3 remedied this by creating an open forum – allowing companies to agree on core standards for WWW technologies.

The future of Berners-Lee’s influence on modern computing is in the context of the Semantic Web. ‘Semantic’ means ‘meaning’.

A semantic web is one where elements that appear in a document hold some meaning that can be automatically processed by a machine in some form of data gathering. Currently, documents on the WWW written in HTML hold no meaning ­ they’re presentation based.

Tim Berners-Lee laid the conceptual foundation for the World Wide Web. It was his initial idea to create a way where information could be freely and easily exchanged. The standards associated with it and the lack of reliance upon a central server, gave the Web a cross platform advantage and independence, which led to its meteoric rise in popularity.

In turn, its popularity spawned and popularized many different programming languages, databases, markup standards, servers – as well as – viruses and worms.

However, while Tim Berners-Lee is the ‘father’ of the Internet, its development over the years is a result of the efforts of an extraordinary number of individuals. There is little question that 500 or 1,000 years from now, historians will look at the invention of the Internet as one of those rare, seminal historical events – much like Gutenberg’s printing press.

Over the last few years the internet has seemed to replace the phone and regular mail delivery to just about everyone across the world. As a result a web owner can stand to make tons of revenue just by placing their business on the net.

To make your appearance on the net, you need to check out web hosting. There are several thousands of these all over the internet, so choosing the right one may seem like a daunting task, but you will reap the benefits in the end. When you are ready to search for a company you need to be sure to check on the disk space available, and the speed among others. Lower end priced web hosting sites are available to fit any budget needs but you need to ask yourself if they are really worth it. You need to be sure you are paying for a company that has credibility as the web is full of fraudsters and cheaters.

The web hosting companies can be most generally placed into 4 different categories. These four categories consist of the purpose of the site, the domain name, the software available to build your site, and most importantly the content of the site.

There are free web hosting site resources that are available such as bloggers.com. These sites are considered launch pad for some of the newer web business owners as they are the most cost effective. You need to be aware though of the size of disk and bandwidth space that they are willing to provide you with though to be sure that you are getting enough space to support your site.

But in actually to create a successful internet presence the business owner needs to go above and beyond the free web hosting sites. The business needs to find a host that will fit into their needed requirements. This is because the uses of free web hosting are limited and you do not have a lot of options that come with them.

The next option that you can try is cheap web hosting. There are a number of different things that you need to be aware of before you sign a contract with these cheaper webs hosting company. Some of these include customer service, uptime, and how long the company has been in business.

Cheap web hosting can be beneficial only if you know certain aspects of the site. By checking on the packages that they have available, the customer service they provide, and uptime among others you can have a great experience with lower end cost web host sites.

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In 2000 the estimated number of active global sites was 17.7 million, which included 9.5 million dot com domains. At the end of 2008 the number websites had reached 187 million, which included  31 million added in 2008. During that year the number of e-mail users worldwide had reached a staggering 1.3 billion and growing. The number of e-mails sent per day was 210 billion, but the down side of  this is the fact that 70% of e-mails are spam, which is approximately 54 trillion per year. Just think about that !!

Domain names increased about 19% during 2008, taking the total number of domains to 175 million worldwide, which includes 77.5 million dot com names.

Major internet users around the world, by the end of 2000 were divided into the following.

Asia        : 15.9 million
UK        : 12.8 million
Europe        : 11.0 million
North America    : 40.5 million

At the end of 2008, the figures for IP registrations were.

Asia        : 578 million
Europe        : 384 million
North America    : 248 million
South America    : 139 million
Africa        :  51  million
Middle East    :  42  million
Oceania/Aust    :  20  million

These figures show a misconception that the biggest user of the internet is North America, but in fact it is Asia, and has been for the last 10 years at least. I suppose this is all relative considering population.

One of the fastest growing areas of the internet is the “ blog “. Now reaching users worldwide of 133 million. The number of posts on blogs during 2008 reached 329 million.

An unfortunate side of the internet is the number of people who find it self gratifying to inflict their views on people, by the use of viruses. The number of viruses increased by 468% from 2007 to 2008.

The increase in the use of all forms of the internet makes you realize what a huge influence the WWW has had on our lives and makes you wonder what the future holds.