From the course: HTML Essential Training
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The hyperlink
- Earlier in the course, we talked a bit about scientist Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Worldwide Web. He wanted to find a better way to not only organize the information, but to be able to share it with thousands of researchers at CERN. By the end of 1990, he had developed several key technologies, HTTP, which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators. HTTP is basically a set of rules for transferring data across the web. And URLs are the addresses of the Internet. Just like you need an address to find a house, you need a URL to find a specific website or webpage. Tim Berners-Lee also created a web server to host the files, a browser to view the files, and last but not least, HTML to create the webpages. While all these components are essential, one of the most important elements of the Worldwide Web is hyperlinks. Hyperlinks allow users to move between different pages and resources on the Internet by clicking on links embedded in webpages…
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