Architecture Of The Web
Explore the fundamental concepts behind the architecture of the web. Understand what web resources are, how URIs identify them, the role of HTTP verbs and status codes, and how representation formats and content negotiation enable flexible interactions. This lesson equips you to grasp how RESTful web services function and lays the foundation for building web applications with Spring Boot.
The birth of the web
The idea of the web originated from the CERN laboratory by Tim Berners-Lee.
Scientists from all over the world would visit CERN to use its accelerator, but they had difficulty sharing information.
Tem Berners Lee saw the problem and he had his eureka moment.
Millions of computers were already connected through the network, so existing infrastructure could be utilized to share the information among computers. His idea was to design a loosely connected system that communicates using hypertext.
This idea eventually gave birth to the web in 1989 and he wrote his first web browser in 1990.
The browser technology was made open source and became available to the general public.
Shortly thereafter, every business wanted to establish a web presence. This discovery was central to the Information Age. Now, billions of people use the internet to share information.
Architecture of world wide web
As documented by the World Wide Web Consortium ...