What, When, Who: Internet History Timeline

The World Wide Web has design issues (and the Origins page is a good place to start) and some interesting semantics , but for the purposes of this essay, I'm focusing on the technology. I'm trying to approach it from a more basic, functional level - what does it do and how can I use it?

The World Wide Web is a linked information resource. This is a very broad statement, but it's the core idea behind hypermedia: there is a huge number of documents. You can think of the World Wide Web as a large, linked, non-linear, directory-like information resource. If you think of a directory as a picture of a directory, you can start to see what the WWW is doing. You can access the WWW by starting at a root web server 827ec27edc