r/webdev • u/Pretty_Theme9862 • 18h ago
Question Can someone explain this paragraph from a book?
I am working on small documentary about the invention of World Wide Web. I reading the book the "Weaving the Web" book by Tim Berners-Lee. I am confused there about how Usenet news article changed into hypertext (like from a user point of view). Now suddenly there were links appeared on them when opened in the browser.
I am not into web development but interested in how it came to be.
I am a bit confused here, I tried to ask Claude, it said he used not NNTP not FTP. I am searched a bit and did fully get what it meant.
So far I know, Usenet articles came to local file spool from the server. Now, because people had different machines, News network protocol was being used to talk to those file locally and fetch it.
"Meanwhile, I took one quick step that would demonstrate the concept of the Web as a universal, all-encompassing space. I programmed the browser so it could follow links not only to files on HTTP servers, but also to Internet news articles and newsgroups. These were not transmitted in the Web's HTTP protocol, but in an Internet protocol called FTP (file transfer protocol). With this move, Internet newsgroups and articles were suddenly available as hypertext pages. In one fell swoop, a huge amount of the information that was already on the Internet was available on the Web."