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== a unified, global '''documentation system'''==
== a unified, global '''documentation system'''==
Berners-Lee wanted to create a unified, global '''documentation system''', that allowed CERN researcher to document and share their progress in readable ways, but also writable.  
Berners-Lee wanted to create a unified, global '''documentation system''', that allowed CERN researchers to document and share their progress in both an easily readable easily writable way.  


== Enquire ==
== Enquire ==
Berners-Lee's first efforts went to the development of a program called ENQUIRE, a pet project to help him remember the connections among the various people, computers and projects at CERN.  
Berners-Lee's first efforts went to the development of a program called ENQUIRE, a pet project to help him remember the connections among the various people, computers and projects at CERN.  


"In Enquire I could type in a page of information about a person, a device or a program. Each page was a ‘node’ in the program, a little like an index card. The only way to create a new node was to make '''a link''' from and old node"<ref name=WeavingtheWeb/>.
"In Enquire I could type in a page of information about a person, a device or a program. Each page was a ‘node’ in the program, a little like an index card. The only way to create a new node was to make '''a link''' from and old node"


== a single information space ==
== a single information space ==
The Enquire experiment got him thinking:  
The Enquire experiment got him thinking:  


"''Suppose all the information stored in computers everywhere were linked … Suppose I could program my computer to create '''a space in which anything could be linked to anything'''.'' All the bits of information in every computer at CERN, and on the planet, would be available to me and anyone else. These would be a single information space"<ref name=WeavingtheWeb/>.
"''Suppose all the information stored in computers everywhere were linked … Suppose I could program my computer to create '''a space in which anything could be linked to anything'''.'' All the bits of information in every computer at CERN, and on the planet, would be available to me and anyone else. These would be a single information space".


== Proposal ==
== Proposal ==
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== Hypertext ==
== Hypertext ==
Provided an non hierarchical way of connecting pieces of information, by interlinking them, which results in a web of content.
Provided an non hierarchical way of connecting pieces of information, by interlinking them, and resulting in a web of content.


Berner-Lee recognized the similarities between his concept for a single information and the web like structure that hypertext allow.
Berner-Lee recognized the similarities between his concept for a single information space and the web like structure that hypertext allowed.


== HTML ==
== HTML ==
To put his ideas into practice Berner-Lee turned into one of the available markup languages, SGML.
To put his ideas into practice Berner-Lee turned into one of the available markup languages, SGML.
[[File:OED-LEXX-Bungler.jpg|A snipped of SGML]]


He simplified, and added '''external hyperlink''', to allow different documents to be connected(in one direction).  
He simplified, and added '''external hyperlink''', to allow different documents to be connected(in one direction).  
[[File:OED-LEXX-Bungler.jpg|A snipped of SGML]]
<source lang="html4strict">
<source lang="html4strict">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
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</code>
</code>


* self-closing tag
* self-closing tag: '''<code><hr /></code>'''
<code lang="html4strict">
<code lang="html4strict">
<img src="nice_picture.jpg" />
<img src="nice_picture.jpg" />
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== essential tags ==
== essential tags ==
* headers: h1,h2,h3,h4
* headers: '''<code><h1>,<h2>,<h3>,<h4></code>'''
* paragraph: p
* paragraph: '''<code><p></code>'''
* line break: br
* line break: '''<code><br /></code>'''
* italics: i
* italics: '''<code><i></code>'''
* bold: b
* bold: '''<code><b></code>'''


* hyperlink: a - requires arguments
* hyperlink: a - '''<code><a href="http://thecolourclock.co.uk/">a link</a></code>'''requires arguments
* image: img - requires arguments
* image: img - '''<code><img src="nice_picture.jpg" /></code>'''requires arguments


=== hyper links ===
=== hyper links ===

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A bit of history: the Wold Wide Web

WWW (what ?)

HTML developed from the creation of the Wold Wide Web.

Wold Wide Web, AKA www, AKA the Web, is not the Internet.

The Internet is essentially the motorway where many vehicles (or protocols) circulate, the Web is simply one of them. Others vehicles on the Internet are email, FTP, torrents, IRC chat, etc.

The Web is a network of interlinked pages, that are accessible through a Web Browser.

www_lets_share_what_we_know_canvas_lunch_bag.jpg

Tim Berners-Lee

The vision for what would become the Web came from Tim Berners-Lee who happened to be working at CERN in the late 1980s

Tim-Berners Lee


a bloody mess at CERN

Tim Berners-Lee in 1980 worked as a software developer at CERN.

He was faced with a few facts that would make him muse about what would later become the Web.

  • CERN's incredible abundance of knowledge and research
  • CERN's equally abundance of different computer hardware/software, protocols, file formats, documentation systems

== a bloody mess

a unified, global documentation system

Berners-Lee wanted to create a unified, global documentation system, that allowed CERN researchers to document and share their progress in both an easily readable easily writable way.

Enquire

Berners-Lee's first efforts went to the development of a program called ENQUIRE, a pet project to help him remember the connections among the various people, computers and projects at CERN.

"In Enquire I could type in a page of information about a person, a device or a program. Each page was a ‘node’ in the program, a little like an index card. The only way to create a new node was to make a link from and old node"

a single information space

The Enquire experiment got him thinking:

"Suppose all the information stored in computers everywhere were linked … Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which anything could be linked to anything. All the bits of information in every computer at CERN, and on the planet, would be available to me and anyone else. These would be a single information space".

Proposal

In a proposal written to CERN's administration Berner-Lee listed the requirements for this global information space:

  • accessible across networks - providing data to different computers
  • distributed - allowing anyone to write information
  • non hierarchical - no tree structures, but stuff connected to stuff.

proposal.gif http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html

Hypertext

Provided an non hierarchical way of connecting pieces of information, by interlinking them, and resulting in a web of content.

Berner-Lee recognized the similarities between his concept for a single information space and the web like structure that hypertext allowed.

HTML

To put his ideas into practice Berner-Lee turned into one of the available markup languages, SGML. A snipped of SGML

He simplified, and added external hyperlink, to allow different documents to be connected(in one direction). 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello World</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Greetings</h1>
    <p>This is my homepage!</p>
  </body>
</html>

Editor, Browser, Go

  • Editor - your html writing tool
  • Browser - the interpreter of html, but also a debug and prototyping space


html essential structural elements

  • doctype <!DOCTYPE html> - an indication to the browser of what content will be given to it to interpret
  • html - all the content of an html file
  • head - mostly invisible content: page title, character encoding, styles, etc. (not essential)
  • body - mostly visible content

golden rules

Once open a tag must be closed, either with

  • an end tag:

Closing Heading 1

  • self-closing tag:

essential tags

  • headers:

    ,

    ,

    ,

  • paragraph:

  • line break:
  • italics:
  • bold:

hyper links

  • internal
  • external link




Resources

Historical: http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web - on the birth of the Web at CERN from CERN

Technical:

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