AKC StudioBrief History of the Web
Hypertext
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The concept of hypertext is basically that a text can be linked to other text, and that a page can contain multimedia, rather than just text.
The origin of the web dates back to the late 1980s, when Tim Berners-Lee led a project at CERN to help the community of scientists share their publications.
The language HTML was created, with basic capabilities to format text and make hyperlinks, or links between pages, which allowed weaving a network of documents where you could easily jump from one to the other.
This network seemed similar to a spider web and was named World Wide Web (WWW, or The Web).
To navigate this network of hypertexts, a program called browser is used, where you can go to a certain page by entering its address, or URL, and also jump to new addresses using the links.
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Mosaic was the first browser that allowed images to be displayed along with the text, instead of in another window.
When the use of the web was liberated, it soon spread to other academic communities, universities, and throughout the world.
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Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, to generate recommendations and standards to guide the long-term growth of the web.
Styles
Traditional media, such as newspapers and magazines, experimented with publishing on the web and promoted proposals to improve the presentation of web pages.
style sheets CSS appeared to allow more efficient management of the graphic design of a web page.
Actions
Companies like Microsoft, with Internet Explorer, and Netscape, with [Navigator](https://es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Netscape_Navigator), competed to have the best browser, promoting the development of javascript, a programming language to manipulate the components of a web page.
Thus, HTML, CSS and Javascript became the trio necessary to build a web page.
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Internet Explorer used the term surfing on the web, while Navigator said surfing on the web, which is what became most popular.
Currently, browser is synonymous with browser.
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Due to commercial maneuvers, Internet Explorer became the default browser for Windows installations, leaving Navigator at a disadvantage to compete.
Subsequently. Netscape folded, releasing Navigator. Further development was taken over by Mozilla under the name Firefox.
Although Firefox led the way in its ability to better follow standards for handling web content and was preferred by developers, Internet Explorer maintained a dominant presence.
Finally, Google Chrome, which followed standards like Firefox but with better speed and performance, was quickly gaining acceptance. Although it had to be installed, compared to an always present Internet Explorer, it became the most popular browser.