This past June we were pleased to launch our new Alpha Group website. This project was a cross-functional collaboration between all members of the Alpha Group, and took nearly seven months to develop. But what of the World Wide Web itself?
The early beginnings of the web started in 1980, when Tim Berners-Lee, a graduate of Oxford University working at CERN (Centre European pour la Recherche Nucleaire -or- European Laboratory for Particle Physics), became frustrated with the fact that his daily schedule, phone numbers, mailing addresses and working documents were stored in different databases on different machines.
Berners-Lee attempted to solve the problem by developing a system that could connect to all the data simultaneously.
By 1989, Berners-Lee and his team at CERN had paved the way for the future development of the web. They introduced the protocol used for communication between the clients and the server:
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web
- Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), a markup language designed for the creation of web pages
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web, such as http://www.alpha.com/
A tool that was developed to source mailing addresses is now an indispensable part of our daily work and home lives.
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