Ten facts to know about World Wide Web, which has completed 25 years

New Delhi: In today's world, the internet has changed people's lives forever. People living in any corner of the world are able to access information and share things in a way not possible for past generations. 25 years ago, on March 12, 1989 British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wrote a proposal for what would finally become the World Wide Web.Here are ten interesting facts to know about www:1.It took two years to Tim Berners-Lee to link a computer server and a web browser through the Internet. Finally it was launched in August 1991.2. At the time, Tim was a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. 3. Tim's initial proposal was not immediately accepted. However, Tim persevered. By October of 1990, he had specified the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today's Web 4. CERN announced in April 1993 that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis. 5. Mosaic wasn't the first Web browser, but it was widely downloaded after it launched in 1993 and was considered the first to make the Internet accessible.The following year, Mosaic's competitor, Netscape Navigator was released.6. By 1993 there were more than 500 web servers. Today, there are more than 1.7 billion people on the web worldwide. 7. There are now more than 600 million websites worldwide.8. On August 6, 1991, the first website http://info.cern.ch went online. 9. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web, was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left CERN in October 1994.10. Archie is considered to be the first Internet search engine. It was the first tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files.