Published 10:24 IST, March 12th 2019

Google is celebrating 30 years of the world wide web and the doodle will set you on a nostalgia overdrive

Tech giant Google on Tuesday, March 12, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web with an interesting doodle. Reminiscing how things were in the early years, the online search giant designed a doodle showing a desktop monitor and a globe in the center of it rendering slowly. 

Reported by: Diyali Banerjee
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Tech giant Google on Tuesday, March 12, celebrated  30th anniversary of birth of World Wide Web with an interesting doodle. Reminiscing how things were in early years, online search giant designed a doodle showing a desktop monitor and a globe in center of it rendering slowly. 

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"As we reach web’s 30th birthday, we reflect on its history – from its hardware foundations to 5 billion person network we see today," Google wrote in its blog. 

On March 12, 1989, 'while trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share data from ir experiments', British physicist Tim Berners-Lee came up with concept of 'a universal and free 'information ' to share kwledge, to communicate, and to collaborate'. 

His proposal suggested use of hypertext links to connect to all or ps having similar information.  techlogy milestone is w  main source of information for billions of people across world. 

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"re are three main ingredients that make up world wide web. URL (uniform resource locator), which is dressing scheme to find a document; HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), which connects computers toger; and HTML (hypertext markup langu), which formats ps containing hypertext links." Google stated.

To clarify confusion between  internet and world wide web, Google in its blog explained, " internet is a huge network of computers all connected toger, but it was world wide web that me techlogy into something that linked information toger and me it accessible to everyone."

" internet alrey existed, but one h thought of a way to use internet to link one document directly to ar," it stated furr. 

Moreover, Berners-Lee also first one to create a web browser and web server, following which  web-based techlogies started flourishing. 

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09:53 IST, March 12th 2019