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How did Division of Labor lead to The World Wide Web?

9 steps · 7 domains · 8,989 years

  1. Division of Labor~7,000 BC (craft specialists) · 7,000 BCSplitting work so each person does one thing well instead of everything badly — the arrangement that turns food surplus into every other profession.
  2. जिसे इसकी ज़रूरत थी — इसे संभव बनाया ↑
    Agriculture~9,500 BC · 9,500 BCTurning a patch of land into a repeating calorie machine by planting and tending chosen crops — the surplus that made cities, writing, and everything after them possible.
  3. इसे संभव बनाया ↓

    A dependable surplus of sugar-rich grain, fruit, or honey is the feedstock; foragers rarely had enough in one place to spare for brewing.

    Fermentation~6,000 BC (widespread); chemically attested by ~7,000 BC · 6,000 BCLiving microbes — chiefly yeast — eating the sugars in grain, fruit, or honey and excreting alcohol and carbon dioxide. Humanity's first controlled chemistry, run entirely by organisms no one could see.
  4. जिसे इसकी ज़रूरत थी — इसे बनाने योग्य बनाया ↑

    Fermentation needs a vessel that holds liquid for weeks and can be sealed against air — the first job of the sealed jar.

    Pottery~18,000 BC · 18,000 BCClay shaped by hand and hardened in fire — among the first materials humans transformed permanently into a new, durable substance, giving them sealed vessels that could store food and, above all, boil it.
  5. इसे बनाने योग्य बनाया ↓
    Glass~1,500 BC (vessels) · 1,500 BCSand melted with a flux of soda or plant ash until it fuses into a transparent solid — shapeable while hot, rigid and chemically inert forever after.
  6. इसे संभव बनाया ↓
    Lenses~1286 AD (spectacles) · 1286 ADGlass ground into curved surfaces that bend light to a focus — correcting aging eyes, and, stacked in tubes, revealing worlds too far or too small to see at all.
  7. इसे बनाने योग्य बनाया ↓
    Photolithography1957 AD · 1957 ADPrinting with light: project a circuit pattern onto a light-sensitive coating on a silicon wafer, so billions of microscopic transistors can be made in a single exposure.
  8. इसे बनाने योग्य बनाया ↓
    Integrated Circuit1959 AD · 1959 ADAn entire circuit — transistors, resistors, wiring — manufactured as one piece on a single sliver of silicon.
  9. इसे संभव बनाया ↓
    The Internet1969–1983 AD · 1983 ADA network of networks with no center: any computer can reach any other by passing packets through whoever is in between.
  10. इसे संभव बनाया ↓

    The web is one application among many running over the internet's packet-carrying network; it borrows the internet's global reach and adds a layer of linked documents on top.

    The World Wide Web1989 AD (Berners-Lee's proposal) · 1989 ADA system of documents that live anywhere on the internet, each reachable by a universal address and able to link directly to any other. It is not the internet itself but an application running on top of it — hypertext, made global by three simple conventions: addresses (URLs), a transfer protocol (HTTP), and a markup language (HTML).
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