The World Wide Web turns 30 today -- the perfect occasion for a Google Doodle. We tend to use the terms "Web" and "Internet" pretty interchangeably these days (except that almost nobody actually calls it the Web anymore, and only a few style guides still capitalize "internet"). The World Wide Web is an application, built using the hypertext transfer protocol (the familiar "http" in most Web addresses) to transfer data and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code to create Web pages and content. In the blandly-titled "Information Management: A Proposal," Berners-Lee described a database using hypertext links to help researchers at the CERN nuclear physics laboratory in Switzerland share documents more easily. 30 years later, the World Wide Web has profoundly reshaped our culture; it's such an ever-present part of modern life that it's hard to break its impact down into specific terms.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2019 06:56 UTC