We now pick up on the evolution of Tim’s idea coming to the World Wide Web.
TBL (Tim Berners Lee) found people interested in his concept, “Hypertext plus Internet", but many were just not convinced about its usefulness. Robert Cailiau, a friend of a fellow scientist, was one of the first that was willing to help. Together they made the perfect team, though complete oppositesin terms of their thought process. With their new proposal accepted in september of 1990 Tim encoded the web on his new 'NeXT' computer (an expensive but powerful new computer in that time). In these long hours Tim became to envisage and fully grasp what the World Wide Web would and could be.
With the NeXT TBL created protocols and the basic principles of the Web. One of those was HTML this set the basis in which how the nodes posted would be created, and in fact this website is made of HTML and a variant CSS. Another was URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, every web site has one, including this site. In this way they were able to find any document by its name/URL. Then there was HTTP, which is a set of rules for communication between web client and server. All of these were the guidelines that made web communication work together (see video for more).
With the NeXT TBL created protocols and the basic principles of the Web. One of those was HTML this set the basis in which how the nodes posted would be created, and in fact this website is made of HTML and a variant CSS. Another was URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, every web site has one, including this site. In this way they were able to find any document by its name/URL. Then there was HTTP, which is a set of rules for communication between web client and server. All of these were the guidelines that made web communication work together (see video for more).
HTTP Cycle
As you can see in the picture, this is how HTTP works, this is how Tim made it to be, but in the beginning there was no Java Script, therefore no JavaBean components. Basically, the client requests the HTML/any other web components, and the server gives. First the server has to collect the files from the "cylinders" and bring them all the way back to the client.
The Web goes Worldwide
From there TBL created the first web server and web client in 1990, and handed out his new browser copies to others at CERN. Although the program to use the web only worked on NeXT computers. To get everyone to use the web, he needed something on there that would make it useful. At CERN, getting the latest phone numbers was always a hassle. Phone books needed constant updating, because scientists were always coming and going in and out of CERN. So Tim convinced people to allow the central computer at CERN to be connected to the web (as it held all the phone numbers). The web was a hit, and later it was used for experiment results also, but Tim disliked that only scientists were plugged into the system. He wanted everyone across the globe to be able to create and view websites. Then a woman CERN met with Tim, Nicola Pellow. Nicola liked the concept of the Web, and she helped Tim make a browser for people without NeXT computers. Though the browser allowed anyone to access the web, over that browser you couldn't edit and post web pages. Soon after that Tim uploaded the browsers and the World Wide Web over the internet for download. From there he got emails from around the world about new websites, feedback, and questions. Through these required enhancements and the growing population of users the WWW was finally ready to be used worldwide.