Feb 27
2011

Web design developed as the World Wide Web developed.  Back in the 1980s the initial impetus to develop the web was the desire of academics to be able to electronically link to academic papers written on a variety of subjects, but at first the emphasis was on papers describing research in physics. Tim Berners-Lee worked on the html (hypertext) language and the browser program which allowed the academic documents to be viewed by the browser from a number of different computer platforms.

The internet was originally developed in the 1960s and was used as a way of transferring date between computers using the telephone line system. The original protocol for transferring the data was developed by the U.S.  Military, but it was soon adopted by Universities to share information of an academic nature.

Since the early stages of the development of the internet and the World Wide Web, the growth of this method of communication and information retrieval has been amazingly rapid and revolutionary in scope. Since the first burgeoning of the internet and web design there have been four generations of web design, each consecutive one more complex, interesting and sophisticated.