What is it, really?

The World Wide Web is:

  • Hypermedia - Enhanced text and links between pages
  • Distributed - The world is your filesystem
  • Implicit typing - MIME provides data typing at the server
  • No central management - Anyone can publish, no critical dependence on a single server

    • History:

  • 1960s - Arpanet
  • 1983 - Internet
  • 1989 - CERN develops Web syntax
  • 1993 - NCSA releases Mosaic client
    • VASC'94 Retreat -- mwm@cmu.edu