Tim Berners-Lee is widely recognized as the first web designer, having created the hypertext markup language (HTML) and coding the CERN site. He then founded the World Wide Web Consortium, which still oversees the development of web standards today. His browser, WorldWideWeb, was a simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor for editing web pages. It only worked with the NextStep operating system and was later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web (WWW).In the US, particle physicist and software developer Paul Kunz launched the first web server at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
He was directly inspired by Berners-Lee's project after meeting him in person at CERN in September of that year. Additionally, Italian computer scientist Silvano de Gennaro was asked by Berners-Lee to scan and upload a photo of a parody pop group called Les Horribles Cernettes (The Horrible CERN Girls) to the website info, cern, ch. This photo became one of the first images published on the World Wide Web. In May 1994, Dutch software engineer Martijn Koster announced Aliweb's first search engine (Archie-Like Indexing in the Web) designed specifically for the World Wide Web service. Unlike other search engines at the time, Aliweb didn't have a web crawler to search and index web pages.
Instead, users had to submit special files containing their exact description and location for sites to be added to the database. Web design is a broad field that encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. It includes web graphic design; user interface design; creation, which includes standardized code and proprietary software; user experience design (UX design); and search engine optimization. Often, many people work in teams that cover different aspects of the design process, although some designers handle all of them. In August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first website, a simple text-based page with some links. A 1992 copy of this original page still exists online.
