A possible solution to the proliferation of different protocols being used on the Internet
Origins
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN proposed the Web in 1989
Purpose: to allow scientists to have access to many databases of scientific work through their own computers
Document form: hypertext
Text with embedded links to text in other documents
Pages? Documents? Resources?
We’ll call them documents
Hypermedia – more than just text – images, sound, etc.
Hypertext – a text with embedded links to text in other documents,