World Wide Web Day is a day dedicated to web browsing and is celebrated on 1 August every year. The day aims to highlight the importance of the web in improving people’s lives by facilitating communication, access to information and resources, education and empowerment. The importance of the World Wide Web is huge in everyday life. Not a day goes by when people all over the world do not use the World Wide Web in some way or the other.
In fact, it can also be called a basic necessity of life. While most people think that the World Wide Web and the Internet are the same thing and use the terms interchangeably, this is not the case. The World Wide Web is essentially a medium that people can access using their computers which are connected to the Internet.
The World Wide Web is the most widely used system for accessing the Internet. The Web is one of many services that use the Internet, the others being email and Internet telephony.
The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN Center in Geneva, Switzerland, as a way for him to communicate with colleagues via hyperlinks. Berners-Lee uploaded the first image to the Internet in 1992. It was from Les Horribles Cernets, a parody pop band founded by CERN employees. This was followed by a significant increase in 1993. At the beginning of the year, there were only 50 servers around the world. However, that number had grown to over 500 servers online by October of the same year. Two early webcomics also debuted during this period: Netboy and Doctor Fun.