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| Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee |
It has changed the lives
of millions of people around the world - and today, the internet marks 25 years
as a publicly available service.
Press
Association report continues:
It
was British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee who gave birth to the idea
while working at a Swiss physics laboratory in 1989.
The
first server was launched publicly, two years later, on August 6, 1991.
According
to the latest Government statistics published in May, 87.9% of UK adults - more
than 45.9 million people - used the internet in the previous three months.
Sir
Tim originally developed the web to meet the demand for information-sharing
between physicists in universities and institutes around the world.
Other
information retrieval systems which used the internet - such as WAIS and Gopher
- were available at the time, but the web's simplicity, along with the fact
that the technology was made royalty-free in 1993, led to its rapid adoption
and development.
By late 1993, there were more than 500 known web servers, and the World Wide Web accounted for 1% of internet traffic. Two decades later, there were an estimated 630 million websites online.
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