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The History Of Webmastering

December 2, 2007

The History Of Webmastering 

The invention of the Internet and the creation of the World Wide Web are considered as some of the most important innovations in the world of communication and information. By working side-by-side, the Internet and the World Wide Web are constantly providing the convenience and service that everybody needs. The success of the mentioned advancements in the fields of electronics, information, and technology are continuously developing because of the process called webmastering.

Webmastering is a means of organizing and manipulating the websites that constitute the World Wide Web in order to improve everybody’s Internet experience.The history of webmastering starts with the creation of the World Wide Web. When he was still working as an independent contractor in the computing services section of the research laboratory CERN, Tim Berners-Lee came up with the most brilliant idea yet.

CERN, the largest particle physics research laboratory in the world, is dedicated to the promotion of collaboration and cooperation of the different institutions and various scientists in order to discover new ideas and innovations that might benefit the society in the future. Because of the fact that the participants of the CERN research are geographically distant from each other, Berners-Lee thought that it would be better if the necessary information they use for research are collected and organized to be conveniently accessed by everybody regardless of their location.

During that time, the trend in the access of information via the computer technology is simply described as the arrangement of individual documents into separate files. The files are then capable of being downloaded into different computers. Because he feels the need for an easier access of different files, Berners-Lee started a project that he called ENQUIRE. The project ENQUIRE, based on the idea of hypertext, is created to allow the researchers to have continuous retrieval of information by the linking of pages which contain related information. With the help of his colleague Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the birth of the World Wide Web in 1990. The World Wide Web is a system which allows the input, the distribution, the sharing, the retrieval, the organization, and the processing of data and information across the globe through the use of the Internet. The necessary components needed in order for the World Wide Web to work efficiently are the web server and the web browser. Berners-Lee is also responsible for the creation of the first ever web browser, WorldWideWeb, and the first ever web server, NeXTcube.

On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee put the very first website ever built available online. The website was plain and simple and it only contained an explanation regarding the identity of the World Wide Web. The mentioned website is addressed as www.w3.org. In the first ever website, other things such as the brief history of the project, the basic description of the project, the technical aspects of the project, the index of software products, the  paper documentation and references, the list of people involved in the project, and the help page of the site are also found.

The locations or sites of  the specific groups of information which are found through the World Wide Web are called websites. The websites are Internet-available, 24/7-accessible sources of useful information which are characterized by a collection of linked documents and files called web pages. Web pages may contain interrelated facts, pictures and images, animations, audio files, videos, and texts. The art of planning, creating, designing, maintaining, developing, marketing, publishing, and overall managing of the web pages in a particular website is called webmastering.

The process of webmastering is administered by an expert called a webmaster. The first ever webmaster in the history of the World Wide Web is, of course, Tim Berners-Lee. He was responsible for the creation of the first ever website which features the basic explanation regarding the identity, the features, and the functions of the World Wide Web. The art of webmastering is made possible through Berners-Lee’s invention of the set of characters called the HTML.

The HTML, which is an acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, is a specially-made computer language that is primarily used for the creation of websites. Almost every single aspect and detail that is found on the different pages of the earliest websites is described through the HTML. Through the HTML codes, the webmasters are given limited options when it comes to the format and layout of the pages included in their websites. The alignment of the texts, the insertion of the graphics, the style of the fonts, the background of the pages, the size of the characters, the width of the borders, the embedding of the videos, the presence of the headings, and the customization of the settings are some of the things made possible by using HTML codes.

The success and popularity of the HTML paved the way for the invention of several other computer languages. Some of the mechanisms or codes which are specially-made to enhance some features and add some style to the different web-based pages are programming language Java, the application framework ASP (Active Server Pages), the reflective programming language PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), the object-oriented VB.net (Visual Basic), and the stylesheet language CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). Aside from the different computer languages, the other features of webmastering that rapidly developed are the websites.

A huge variety of websites are now ubiquitously found through the World Wide Web. The different types of websites include the affiliate, the archive site, the blog, the corporate website, the commerce site, the community site, the database site, the development site, the directory site, the download site, the employment site, the game site, the geodomain, the gripe site, the humor site, the information site, the Java applet site, the mirror site, the news site, the personal homepage, the phish site, the political site, the pornography site, the rating site, the review site, the search engine, the shock site, the web portal, and the wiki site.

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