Unit - 01

History of WWW :-
Tim Berners Lee, a British Scientist, invented World Wide Web (WWW)
in 1989, while working at CERN, an international Scientific Organization
located in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Basic idea of the WWW was to merge the evolving technologies of
computers, Data networks & hypertext into a powerful and easy to use
global information system.
He created a program for himself that could store documents
containing links between them.
 In 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee proposed a global system that would
use the Internet. This would provide scientists from around the
world with a means of sharing their findings without the need to
send the Email.
 From 1991 onwards, Sir Tim Berners Lee developed the www &
established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The
objective of the Consortium is to develop guidelines that ensure
long term growth for the web.
By October of 1990, Tim Berners Lee had written three fundamental
technologies that remain the foundation of Today’s Web.
1. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) :- The markup (formatting)
language for the web.
2. URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) :- A kind of Address that is
unique and used to identify each resource in the web. It is
commonly known as URL (Uniform Resource Locater).
3. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) :- It allows for the Retrieval
of linked resources from across the world.
Evolution of HTML :-
HTML is the standard language used to produce web pages &
applications. HTML is evolving markup language and has evolved with
various reasons, each version has allowed its user to create web pages
in a much easier & prettier way and makes sites very efficient.

Q. What do you mean by Semantic Elements ?

A semantic element clearly describes its meaning to both the browser
and the developer. The HTML semantics refers to the tags that provide
meaning to an HTML page rather than just presentation.
Ex :- <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <aside>, etc.