The article “The World Wide Web” (1994) by Tim Berners-Lee et al. looked into the early days of the World Wide Web (or W3) that we use so easily today. A W3 client on your computer would be able to connect to servers and display text and images (792) using URIs (universal resource identifiers), HTTP and HTML to bring you the content and render it. In particular, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) was used for requests and responses for transferring document objects (794), and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was the language that web pages and documents would be written under for universal producing and understanding (795).
Seeing that this article was written in 1994, the statement that “the Web does not yet meet its design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is easy to update as it is to read” (797) showed me how in today’s Web, there is so much information constantly being updated. It made me wonder if the “design goal” had finally been met with the era of social media, blogs and wikis, with millions of people posting and updating the Web with new stories and personal things to share. I tend to read through various blogs online with RSS (really simple syndication) feeds because of how they get constantly updated, and it is easier to read specific stories and blog posts this way. The article went through some of the foundations of what everything is built on for online content, and the design of the Web will continue to evolve as the Internet becomes more ubiquitous.
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