Difference between revisions of "Web history"
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex Memex], a micro-film system which Bush imagined in the 1945 essay "As We May Think". | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex Memex], a micro-film system which Bush imagined in the 1945 essay "As We May Think". | ||
| − | Before developing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee built an earlier [[ | + | Before developing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee built an earlier [[hypertext]] system at CERN in Switzerland in 1980, which he called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE ENQUIRE]. This stand-alone database used bi-directional [[hyperlink]]s and provided an editor for easy creation of the links. |
Berners-Lee's original proposal for the web was modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynatext Dynatext] system, for which CERN had a license. Dynatext was a powerful tool for reading documents annotated with [[Standard Generalized Markup Language]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML SGML]), but it was considered too expensive for widespread use, since the license imposed a fee each time any document was changed. | Berners-Lee's original proposal for the web was modeled after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynatext Dynatext] system, for which CERN had a license. Dynatext was a powerful tool for reading documents annotated with [[Standard Generalized Markup Language]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML SGML]), but it was considered too expensive for widespread use, since the license imposed a fee each time any document was changed. | ||
