ABSTRACT
But some computer scientists had even more ambitious ideas. They didn’t want the internet to be simply a vehicle for transferring messages or documents between individuals. Instead, they wanted to create a way for large groups of people to access and work on the same files. They also wanted to be able to direct people to those documents through hyperlinks, or specially coded words or pictures that, when clicked, connect the user to a particular file, even to a specific relevant part of a document. Researchers at the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, made this linking possible in 1989. Tim Berners-Lee and Sam Walker from the United Kingdom and Robert Cailliau from Belgium created HyperText Markup Language (HTML), a computer language system that allowed people to access a system of interlinked documents through the internet. HTML is used to define the structure, content, and layout of a page by using what are called tags. The CERN researchers built this system to work via the internet, and they called it the World Wide Web. A key aspect of this web was that users could go to the materials by typing in a specific World Wide Web address or by clicking on a link in a document that contained the address, which would automatically connect them to that place.
