The WWW Project
By Pauline M. Berry
The WWW or W3 was originally developed to allow information sharing within
internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by
support groups. Originally aimed at the High Energy Physics Community centred
at CERN in Switzerland. The Web began in
March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (a collective of European high-energy
physics researchers) proposed the project to be used as a means of transporting
research and ideas effectively throughout the organisation. Effective
communications was a goal of CERN's for many years, as its members were located
in a number of countries.
The WWW has now spread to other areas and has attracted much interest in user
support, resource and information discovery and retrieval and collaborative
work areas. It claims to be the most advanced information system deployed on
the Internet currently.
It does, in fact, embrace most information in previous networked information
systems such as, Gopher, WAIS and Usenet news and has the potential to cope
with other future developments in the area. For more information about the WWW
project at CERN and more recent developments try the following WWW pages:
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