Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
From: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
Date: 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT
Local: Tues, Aug 6 1991 9:00 am
Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary
WorldWideWeb – Executive Summary
The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to
make an easy but powerful global information system.
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The WWW world consists of documents, and links. Indexes are special documents
which, rather than being read, may be searched. The result of such a search is
another ("virtual") document containing links to the documents found. A simple
protocol ("HTTP") is used to allow a browser program to request a keyword
search by a remote information server.
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Tim Berners-Lee Tel: +41(22)767 3755
WorldWideWeb project Fax: +41(22)767 7155
C.E.R.N. email: t…@cernvax.cern.ch
1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland
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Amazing how the concept of dynamically generated pages was so revolutionary at the time. Now one almost never expects to be served static text.
More on the internet's history here:
