World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web, also known as WWW, was first developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1980 when he needed a resource that would allow him and his colleges at CERN to communicate with each other using a common database. Then in 1984, he realized that he needed a common ground to communicate amongst others around the world and together he and Robert Cailliau wrote a proposal seeking investment into his idea that was published in 1990, but no one was interested. After developing what he needed on his own, Berners-Lee published the first post on the now publicly available internet service on August 6, 1991. The internet is useful in more ways than I can name. It is useful for shopping, researching, entertainment, recreation, marketing, and much more. It allows people to shop for clothing, electronics, books, furniture, cars and more from the comfort of their own home. It allows students to have access to the largest research databases that are reputable and published. Teachers use it in the classrooms as ways to research topics of the curriculum. Elementary schools use the web for their reading programs such as Accelerated Reader, which is accessible from my own home. My son had to create his own blog when he was in fourth grade. This would fall in the category of the constructivist school of learning because he was able to draw on the information he already new about computers and keyboarding to help him with his blog.