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as TIM (The Information Mine) which was turned down as it abbreviated Tim's initials.
After a few suggestions, there was only one name that stuck; the World Wide Web.The
World Wide Web uses three protocols:

o HTML (Hypertext markup language) - The language that we write our
web pages in.
o HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) - Although other protocols can be
used such as FTP, this is the most common protocol. It was developed
specifically for the World Wide Web and favored for its simplicity and
speed. This protocol requests the 'HTML' document from the server and
serves it to the browser.

o URLS (Uniform resource locator) - The last part of the puzzle required to
allow the web to work is a URL. This is the address which indicates where
any given document lives on the web. It can be defined as
<protocol>://<node>/<location>

The First Browsers

By December 1990 Tim had joined forces with another physicist Robert Cailliau who
rewrote Tim's original proposal. It was their vision to combine hypertext with the internet
to create web pages, but no one at that time could appreciate how successful this idea could
be.

Despite little interest, Berners Lee continued to develop three major components for the
web; HTTP, HTML and the world first web browser. Funnily enough, this browser was

also called "the World Wide Web" and it also doubled as an editor.

A screenshot of the world's first web browser.

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