World Wide Web (WWW) Day is annually observed across the globe on August 1 to celebrate the creation and impact of the WWW and recognise its role in connecting the world.
- The day highlights the web’s transformative role in revolutionising communication, collaboration, and access to knowledge.
Exam Hints:
- Event: World Wide Web Day 2025
- Date of Observance: 1st August (Annually)
- Theme: “Empowering the Future: Building an Inclusive, Safe, and Open Web”
- Background: To highlight the invention of the WWW by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
- Web Governance: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) monitors the web standards and protocols of the World Wide Web.
- Important Bodies: ICANN, IETF, ITU, IGF monitor the Internet Governance of www.
Theme:
2025 Theme: Empowering the Future: Building an Inclusive, Safe, and Open Web
Focus: It emphasises digital equity, internet transparency, privacy protection, and safe access for the development of Artificial Intelligence(AI), blockchain, Web3, and Internet of Things (IoT).
Background:
Origin: This day is drafted to highlight and honour the anniversary of the development of www by Tim Berners-Lee.
Honour: This day also celebrates the individuals who have contributed to the web’s evolution into the current advanced and organised structure.
History:
Invention: Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW in 1989 while he was employed at Geneva (Switzerland)’s CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research).
Foundational Tools: He coined the term ‘World Wide Web’ and wrote the first World Wide Web server ‘httpd‘ and the first client program ‘WorldWideWeb’ in October 1990.
First Website:The world’s first website, ‘info.cern.ch’, went live on August 6, 1991, marking the beginning of the public World Wide Web.
HTTP Release: Later, in collaboration with Robert Cailliau, a Belgian informatics engineer, they developed the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and released it in 1992.
About World Wide Web(WWW):
Introduction: The WWW is also known as the Web or W3, is a collection of websites or web pages stored in web servers and connected to local computers through the Internet.
Purpose: It was created to help people share and find information easily, using links that connect different pages.
- These websites contain text pages, digital images, audio, videos, etc
- The users can access the content of these websites over the internet using their devices, such as computers, laptops, cell phones, etc.
Components of Web: There are three basic components in the Web, namely Uniform Resource Locator(URL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language(HTML).
- Lately, the web components also include Web servers, Cloud storage systems, User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) systems, Web Frameworks, Database and Web Hosting systems.
About World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international standards organisation, developed for the long-term growth of the Web.
- It includes the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
President- Seth Dobbs
Headquarters- Massachusetts, the United States of America(USA)
Established- 1994
