World Wide Web Day

World Wide Web Day is widely known among Internet users. No one doubts the World Wide Web is a great invention that helps many people around the world to search for information, communicate, study, and work. The Internet really deserves a holiday of its own, and this holiday is quite popular.

History

The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. Many mistakenly identify the World Wide Web with the Internet, but this is not true: the Internet appeared much earlier. The World Wide Web is a narrower concept that refers to a network of documents connected by hyperlinks. Interestingly, this invention was not initially intended for a wide range of users; however, once it reached the masses, it quickly gained popularity. Now, we can no longer imagine life without this phenomenon. By 2022, there were about five billion Internet users in the world and more than one and a half billion active sites. 58.4% of the global population uses social media.

World Wide Web Day was created as a tribute to a great invention that changed our world.

Interesting Facts

• The prototype of the Internet – the ARPANET – appeared in 1969.
• The spread of personal computers among individuals began in the 1980s.
• The first mass technology for communicating on the Internet was e-mail, which was already actively used by US residents in the early 1990s.

How to Take Part

World Wide Web Day is a holiday you can shamelessly spend without interruption on the Internet. Publish a post dedicated to this day on social networks and tell us what the global network means to you and how it has helped you. Take advantage of all the possibilities of the Internet: chat with friends, listen to a podcast, watch a video or broadcast on YouTube, play an online strategy game, or read an interesting article.

When is World Wide Web Day in 2024?

World Wide Web Day is observed on August 1 each year.

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