History is the replica of the present. Thus, we have to press
our flashback imaginary buttons in order to have a sojourn in
the times of yore.
We have to know the beginning in order to relate it to the
present and the future. In the case of web design, history is
conclusive and clear and it is interesting to dwell a tad in a
world of imagination, art and craftsmanship. Together we go
back...
In the late 1960's, internet was used to transfer data between
computers through the telephone network system. The transfer was
made possible by transmission control protocol/internet protocol
(TCP/IP). It was developed by Advanced Research and Projects
Agency. It was primarily developed for US military needs
however, it was later used by some universities.
In 1969, aside from the creation of ARPANET, Generalized Markup
Language (GML) was also created. This was made possible by the
brilliant minds of Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher, and Raymond
Lorie. GML was then used to facilitate text management in large
information systems.
It was in 1980 when American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
committee built on GML and published a working draft of Standard
GML, or SGML. This was later on adopted as the standard system
by government agencies, research companies and schools. Few
years after, a scientist working at CERN, the Nuclear Particle
Physics Laboratory in Switzerland, by the name of Tim
Berners-Lee, invented the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to
define the structure of Web pages. It is a standard hypertext
language protocol and browser program that interrupts the html
version and converts it into text. HTML was used in a lot of
contents and multi-media images or anything that uses tables,
graphics, audio, video, and mathematics symbols.
Berners-Lee is also responsible for the early developments in
the web's ability to link academic papers like books researches
and studies electronically. Another contribution was the
inception of the concept of internet to answer the intellectual
and emotional queries of people around the world.
It was also in 1980's when the web experienced a rapid
evolution. The changes are now used by business, education,
government and other companies and entities. This is the ear
when the World Wide Web was developed by a scientist who has
explored communication methods through computer network.
Early on, browser programs were only capable of viewing texts,
but nowadays, they have already developed into a wide range of
computer platforms. Aside from that, there is also lots of
authoring software available these days. In fact, it has turned
very user-friendly that children can very well understand and
use it!
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