Happy Birthday To The World Wide Web - Exploring Resources Connected to the Evolution of the Web

Google Doodle Celebrating 30 Years of the Web

Did You Know That The Internet and the World Wide Web Are Not the Same Things?

Internet - a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. (Google)
World Wide Web - an information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another. (Google)

Did you know that the World Wide Web (WWW) turned 3o years old on March 12?

I think most of us take for granted how easy it is to access just about anything we want to learn about on the Web, The Internet and the World Wide Web have impacted almost every aspect of our daily lives. We all know that the growth and evolution of the Web have impacted and will continue to impact how we teach and learn. I have a hard time remembering my first few years of teaching without the Web as a resource for teaching and learning. 

The birthday of the World Wide Web inspired me to start thinking about the history of the Web and my exploration began. The rest of this post is dedicated to some of the resources I explored. 

Curious about the history of the World Wide Web and how it has changed since the beginning?

Google Arts and Culture  - The World Wide Web: The Invention That Connected the World

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Visual Capitalist - What Happens in an Internet Minute?

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History of the Web Timeline Infographic: Celebrating 30 Years of the World Wide Web

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TEDEd Lesson - What is the World Wide Web?

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Additional Resources

• The Internet Hall of Fame - The Internet Hall of Fame's Living History Timeline explores the history of the Internet and highlights the inductees who have pioneered Internet technology, contributed to ongoing development and innovation and helped expand the Internet's reach across the globe.
• The Fight for the Future of the Web - Inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee shares his vision for the future of the Web. 
• 5 Tools to Help You Search the Archived Internet - Tech.co summary of resources for exploration of the archived websites and web resources.
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone - Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything in this book.

Have a favorite resource connect the World Wide Web? Please share in the comments below.