Tim Berners-Lee, while working as an independent consultant on nuclear research laboratory in 1980, developed an innovative way of storing information in a program called Enquire.

That work was later used as the foundation for the development of a global hypertext system - popularly known as the Internet or World Wide Web.

The WWW was developed to increase the ease with which people can exchange information. This became a reality with the introduction of WYSWIG first (what you see is what you get) web browser hypertext was written by Tim Berners-Lee.

The advantage of the WWW in the previous systems is the lack of a need for a centralized server. In short, this meant that it was so easy to retrieve and link to a document that was down the hall and around the world.

This was a breakthrough in computer science.

The Web and the Web server, was first released in hypertext communities in mid-1991 after being released at CERN in late 1990. In order to achieve a consistent level of the WWW, the specifications for URLs, HTTP and HTML were published.

The universality required by these specifications, not relying on a central server and Berners-Lee's decision not to take advantage of the WWW led to a high level of technology adoption from 1991-1994. A tenfold increase in annual traffic recorded in the Web server for the first time during this period.

With the advent of the Web, a number of technologies have emerged derived. A wide range of server side, client and database languages ??have been created to meet the needs of businesses and individuals.

There are two types of programming languages ??used on the Web: client side and server side.

A client side language running on the user's browser and Web server does not depend. programming client side is almost exclusively with JavaScript.

A language server running on the Web server. In recent years, server-side programming has become more popular than client-side programming, since it is independent of the type of browser you are using the internet user. Developers refer to this as "multiplatform." Perl, PHP, ASP and JSP are popular programming languages ??on the client side.

Databases have been developed to allow for "dynamic" websites.

dynamic web sites have a high level of customization to retrieve information.

Whenever you type in the values ??of a form on a website - if those values ??are for a user ID and password, the characteristics of their ideal or the author's name - a "dynamic" web site. That's just a way of saying that there is a database that is used to run the website.

Popular databases used include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

An area of ??the WWW Berners-Lee has direct involvement in his role as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which has existed since 1994.

The objective is to WC3 standards consistent across all the companies who use web technologies like HTML, CSS and XML. Before the creation of standards outlined by the WC3, companies use different standards, resulting in possible inconsistencies. The WC3 remedied by creating an open forum - allows companies to reach an agreement on the fundamental rules of WWW technologies.

The future of the influence of Berners-Lee in modern computing is in the context of the Semantic Web. 'Semantic' means 'meaning'.

The semantic web is one where elements that appear in a document have a meaning that can be processed automatically by a machine in some form of data collection. Currently, Web documents written in HTML are not meaningful are based presentation.

Tim Berners-Lee laid the conceptual groundwork for the World Wide Web. It was his initial idea of ??creating a form in which information can be exchanged freely and easily. The same rules and lack of confidence in a central server, the Web took advantage of cross-platform independence, which led to his meteoric rise in popularity.

In turn, led to its popularity and many popular programming languages, databases, dialing rules, servers - and - viruses and worms.

However, while Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the Internet and its evolution over the years is the result of the efforts of an extraordinary number of people. There is no doubt that the 500 or 1000 from now, historians will look at the invention of the Internet as one of those rare events, historical seminal - like Gutenberg's printing press.