This article is about the advent of web development and other closely related technology. The web is sometimes synonymous with the Internet, the two terms are quite different, and they refer to distinct but related concepts in the computerized telecommunication system. The Internet is no more than many small computer networks that have been wired together to allow for electronic information to be sent from one network to the next anywhere in the world. The web is one of many high level data exchange protocols on the internet. Before the Web, there was Telnet, the traditional command-driven style of interaction. Then there was FTP, a file transfer protocol useful for retrieving information from large file archives. Later there was Usenet, a communal news system. There was also e-mail for individual information exchange, and e-mail lists, for large broadcasts. In addition to those, there was Gopher, a campus-wide information system shared among universities and research institutions. WAIS, a powerful search and retrieval system developed by Thinking Machines, Inc., was also used. In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN, created a new information system called the “World Wide Web” (WWW). Designed to help CERN scientists with the confusing task of exchanging information on the Internet. The Web system was to act as a unifying force, a system that binds all file-protocols to a single point of access. Users could then use a browser to retrieve and display information form the internet. The Web is best known for its ability to combine text with graphics and other multimedia on the Internet. Since the Web combines data exchange protocols it has backwards capabilities for other protocols, in addition to its native language HTTP.