The internet and the Web

In this video, Professor Les Carr explains how the hypertext technologies used on the internet infrastructure became the Web as we know it today.

Technically, there are three specific big ideas that are at the heart of the Web and allowed Tim Berners-Lee to create an information service on top of the internet:

1. Uniform Resource Identifier or Locator (URI or URL)

2. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

3. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

However, in this course we must not only think about ‘How the Web is changing the World’ but also ‘How the World is changing the Web’.

In the next step, Professor Susan Halford explains that there are more complex factors involved in the evolution of the Web besides the technology underpinning it.