1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi again. Welcome to this Day in History Class, 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: where history waits for no One. Today is August six, nineteen. 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: The day was August six, British engineer and computer scientist 5 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: Tim berners Lee published the first ever website, burners Lee 6 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: got his degree in physics from the University of Oxford. 7 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: A few years after he graduated, he began working at 8 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN. 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: He worked there for a while in nineteen eighty, left 10 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: to work elsewhere, and returned to CERN in nineteen eighty four. 11 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: While there, he realized that sharing information was different cult 12 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: for the organization's researchers, who were in different places around 13 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: the world and had different information on different computers. The 14 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: Internet was already connecting computers and it was developing quickly, 15 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: but berners Lee realized that people could share information using hypertext, 16 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: or text that contains links to other texts. In March 17 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty nine, he submitted to his managers at 18 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: CERN a proposal for an information management system that used 19 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: hypertext to link documents on different computers that were connected 20 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: to the Internet. His boss, Mike Sendall wrote on the 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: proposal document that it was vague but exciting. In May 22 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety, burners Lee wrote his second proposal concerning 23 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: quote the management of general information about accelerators and experiments 24 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: at CERN. It was not an official STERN project, but 25 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: burners Lee was allowed to work on it. He began 26 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: working with a Belgian engineer at CERN named Robert Caiu, 27 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: and the project was formalized as a management proposal in 28 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: November of n This proposal for a hypertext project called 29 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: Worldwide Web described a web of hypertext documents that could 30 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: be viewed by browsers. By the end of nine burners 31 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: Lee had developed the three technologies that were fundamental to 32 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 1: the web. Hypertext Markup Language or h t m L, 33 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: Uniform Resource identifier or you are I, and Hypertext Transfer 34 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: Protocol or h T t P. H t m L 35 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: is the formatting language for the Web, the U R 36 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: I is the unique address that allows us to locate 37 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: a resource on the web, and h T t P 38 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: is a set of rules that allows for the retrieval 39 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: of linked resources from across the web. He also wrote 40 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: the first web page browser and web server. Burners Lee 41 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: released his Worldwide Web software in n making it available 42 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: to colleagues using CERN computers in March. The web was 43 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: made publicly available on August six. The site only contained 44 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: text and links. It included a description of the Worldwide Web, 45 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: defined as quote a wide area of hypermedia information retrieval 46 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe 47 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: of documents. It also described how to use the web. 48 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: The site was hosted at CERN on burners Lee's next computer, 49 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: and its address was info dot CERN dot c H. 50 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: The first web pages address is listed in the description 51 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: interest in the Web spread around the world. CERN wanted 52 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: to patent the web, but burners Lee refused. He wanted 53 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: the technology to be free and open, and advocated for 54 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: the source code to always be available on a royalty 55 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: free basis. People began creating browsers and websites, and by 56 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: late ninete there were more than five hundred known servers. 57 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: The first international Worldwide Web Conference was held at CERN 58 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: in May of nineteen four. That same year, bernards Lee 59 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: left CERN and went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 60 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: There he founded the Worldwide Web Consortium, a web standards 61 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: organization that he is currently the director of. I'm Eves 62 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: Jeff Coote and hopefully you know a little more about 63 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: history today than you did yesterday. 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