> What can you access using "hypertext transfer protocol?"And the answer: the World Wide Web. At the beginning of every web address in your internet browser, you'll see theletters HTTP. The letters stand for "hypertext transfer protocol," which is theset of rules that controls how your browser navigates the network of linkedpages, known as the World Wide Web.Today's internet, in all its high-speed glory, is the culmination of nearly acentury of computer science pioneering. Long before the technology existed, manyscientists had already anticipated the existence of worldwide networks ofinformation. Nikola Tesla toyed with the idea of a “world wireless system” inthe early 1900s, while visionary thinkers like Paul Otlet and Vannevar Bushconceived of mechanized, searchable storage systems of books and media in the1930s and 1940s. But it wasn't until the 1960s that the technology began to take off. A method oftransferring information called "packet switching" became an essential tool forsending information electronically. A program in the late 60s titled ARPANET, orAdvanced Research Projects Agency Network, built off this knowledge to allowmultiple computers to communicate on a single network. However, its first taskto do so was ultimately too ambitious. One computer in a research lab at UCLAattempted to send the message "LOGIN" to another computer at Stanford (eachcomputer weighing in at roughly the size of a small house), but both systemscrashed after the first "LO." The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1989, when computerscientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. While it’s often confusedwith the internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means ofaccessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks. This was anessential step in the internet's popularization among the public, and since hasgrown at the hand of tech producers and consumers alike. Today, an infinitedepth of information remains available at our fingertips. Check out the video below to learn more.