What crosses your mind whenever you happen to come across the word web, do you relate it to a spider web or a cobweb, well what are the other interpretations and connotations of this word? For some the web happens to be an excellent medium of self-expression, then there are still others for whom censorship must reign supreme and they are all game for stringent checks and balances.
The Horse’s Mouth
Let us hear it straight from the horse’s mouth, by no stretch of imagination is it a web of lies, as is sometimes made out to be, on the contrary, it is very much real, so much so, it has become an integral part of our lives, it is a continuously evolving reservoir of information.
Interconnected Network of Networks
Can you imagine a life without the web in this day and age, if you answer this in affirmative, you are probably still living under a rock? Any idea how the web came about and who was its inventor, the genesis of the internet can be traced back to the year 1969, when defense researchers in a bid to thwart a nuclear attack, figuratively speaking as far as safeguarding information was concerned came up with the idea of interconnecting networks. The name is derived from an interconnected network of networks.
A Matter of Seconds
In the event a network or few networks get affected, the information still remains secure at some other safe location in another region, country, subcontinent, continent. And this aspect of the internet is harnessed to the hilt by various organizations, such as international banks, who keep backups at multiple locations in order to safeguard against natural calamities, such as earthquakes among others, where all the crucial financial information might get wiped out in a matter of seconds.
Abstract Space
The internet had to wait for almost two decades to be able to witness the world wide web. It was in the year 1998 when Tim Berners-Lee, invented the world wide web. His idea was to come up with an abstract or imaginary space of information, that in essence is the web we see today.
The Plight
But for the web, it is easy to figure out the plight of people all over the world who would still be lugging around voluminous hardbacks of Encyclopedia Britannica back and forth from their bookshelves.
Colour Schemes
Essentially the web is all about websites which are not just beautiful but aesthetically designed too, with appealing color schemes, information, images, and videos and they have come to be intertwined into our lives irrevocably thanks to the experts in engineering jobs.
Final Thoughts
Think of the frequent status updates we make, the selfies we post, the e-learning we undertake, online shopping we do, this has made the web an inseparable and an integral part of our lives. It is to the credit of web designers who weave this magic and the future holds immense promise with artificial intelligence and contextual computing taking over from the present day crop of design geniuses.
