A General WWW History
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Based on a presentation by Domini Gee (Prezi presentation)
A general history of the WWW spanning from pre-invention to2001.
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What is the World Wide Web?
The WWW is an information retrieval internet service that allows navigation between interlinked hypertext and hypermedia documents.
Conceptual Hypertext Roots
Paul Otlet's Monde
In 1895, with help of Henri La Fontaine, Paul Otlet set out to create a master bibliography of all the world???s published knowledge. They collected books, journal articles, photographs, posters, etc. and created a vast paper database of over twelve million individual entries. However, the sheer amount of information (not to mention choking amounts of paper) made traditional means impractical. He started sketching out ideas in the 1920s to manage the information but realized the solution was to get replace paper with electronic storage.
Otlet's 1934 book,
Unfortunately, before Otlet's vision could become concrete the government cut the project's funding. A small number of staff continued to work on the project until the Nazi invasion. The Nazis cleared out thousands of boxes of index cards for a Third Reich Art exhibition, destroying much of Otlet's work.
Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote
Bush conceived the Memex as a way to make accessible the bewildering amount of knowledge. The Memex would imitate the human mind, capable of linking nonlinear ideas through a web of associations more quickly and efficiently than traditional hierarchical methods.
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A year after Bush's article, Murray Leinster released a