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During his time at CERN Burners-Lee noticed lots of the employees were floating in and out of the famous research institute, many of them temporary. "The big challenge for contract programmers was to try to understand the systems, both human and computer, that ran this fantastic playground," Berners-Lee later wrote. "Much of the crucial information existed only in people's heads." Due to this finding and feeling, he began to write a small program to resolve this issue, the program Enquire was born.
The system enables the users to create “nodes” these were a form of an index card that linked to pages that may have been relevant to the card. This system was built on CERNS own operating system however people saw its potential and thought that it was a good idea, however, a lot didn’t use it. Burners-Lee left CERN not long after the creation of Enquire before making a return year later. This time he improved and reissued his "World Wide Web" project On August 6, 1991, he release an explanation of WWW on the alt.hypertext user group. He also released a code library, libWWW, which he wrote with his assistant Jean-François Groff. The library allowed participants to create their own Web browsers. Follow this Link to see the Email Conversation that happened.
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And from this, the humble web browser was spawned allowing users to use Berners-Lee’s Hyper Text Mark-up Language or HTML to create pages of information, initially of pure text for it to evolve in to images and to today’s net as we know it.
The History of the Man
Factoid:
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was dubbed a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II during an Investiture in London on Friday, 16 July 2004.
Using your research skills and newly gained information to the use of browsers, create a timeline of the browsers and their evolution.
Getting into 5 groups create an information presentation to assist your class mates, your group will be appointed one of the following
•Group 1 - Tim Burners-Lee and CERN
•Group 2 - First web page
•Group 3 - What he did
•Group 4 - Bibliography
•Group 5 - The Institution he is a key player in still today
The information covered on this page covers the knowledge and understanding linked to the criterion in the table below.
| Links to Assessment Criteria | Description |
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| P1 | outline the web architecture and components which enable internet and web functionality |
| M1 | explain the role of web architecture in website communications |
| D1 | explain the role of the TCP/IP protocol and how it links to application layer protocols |
| Functional Skills English | Reading, Writing, Comprehension, Problems Solving, Nouns |
| Functional Skills Maths | Compression,Reduction |
| British Values | None covered in this session. |
| Equality and Diversity |
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