Fellow mortals,
You may be wondering what you need the internet for (although, to be honest, this is unlikely) and of course the first thing that springs to your mind will be that you need the internet to view my blog. But have you ever considered how the internet came into being? Or, more specifically, how the first web browsers were created? If not, begone, urchin. If so, then read on...
It was Christmas Day, 1990. Earlier that month, a connection had been made between Britain and Continental Europe through the joining of the British and French ends of the Channel Tunnel. But Tim Berners-Lee, a 36-year-old Oxford physics graduate, was working on a different kind of connection. He and a Belgian called Robert Cailliau managed to form a connection between two computers over the internet. This led to the first commercially successful web browser, called Mosaic. There had been others before this, but Mosaic made everything far more usable by having a graphical interface.
Where would we be without the Channel Tunnel? Further away from the French, for one, and that can't be a bad thing. But where would we be without any web browsers? We'd be further away from the world, and that would be a step too far.
Good night and good luck,
Paul Norris
I don't know why, but everything here is highlighted. I looked at the HTML but it seemed confusing and scary so I left it alone.
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