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Enabling Semantic Web Services
More than three decades ago, the information revolution started with ARPANet, the so-called grandfather of the Internet, with originally only four connected servers. The idea of developing this network came from the need for scientists to communicate with one another independently of geographical barriers. Just as the telephone allowed them to communicate their words, ARPANet enabled them to freely transfer data or use remote computers. While the Internet grew continuously, several useful developments such as email, FTP, and TELNET took place within ARPANet.
However, in addition to such developments, it took another revolutionary idea to cause the real takeoff. Only in the early 1990s, when the Internet as such and communication via email, file transfer via FTP, and remote server access via TELNET were already fairly well established in the scientific community, did a young scientist working at CERN spark the next revolution. Tim Berners-Lee combined several innovative ideas into a distributed hypertext system, and provided building blocks such as a simple underlying protocol (HTTP), unique identifiers for linkable information (URIs), and an easy-to-use language (HTML) to create human-readable, interlinked documents accessible all across the Internet. And with these monumental technological foundations the World Wide Web was born.
The idea of allowing persistent publication of information on your server, which would be publicly available via an open protocol, combined with the possibility of linking this information arbitrarily, encouraged people to publish enormous amounts of data making the Web the biggest data collection ever: Google alone has more than 9 700 000 000 Web pages indexed at the time of publication, and is, of course, rapidly growing.
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