Editing Website (section)

==Background==
{{further|History of the World Wide Web}}
[[File:NASA Website Homepage - April 25, 2015.png|thumb|295x295px|The [[NASA|nasa.gov]] [[home page]] in 2015]]
The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1989 by the British CERN computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tim Berners-Lee|url=https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html|access-date=2021-11-17|website=W3C |archive-date=27 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927100010/https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Overview.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="First page">{{cite web |title=home of the first website |url=https://info.cern.ch/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610063709/http://info.cern.ch/ |archive-date=10 June 2017 |access-date=30 August 2008 |website=info.cern.ch}}</ref> On 30 April 1993, [[CERN]] announced that the World Wide Web would be free to use for anyone, contributing to the immense growth of the Web.<ref name="w3c">{{cite web |last=Cailliau |first=Robert |title=A Little History of the World Wide Web |url=https://www.w3.org/History.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506021750/http://www.w3.org/History.html |archive-date=6 May 2013 |access-date=16 February 2007 |website=W3C}}</ref> Before the introduction of the [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol]] (HTTP), other protocols such as [[File Transfer Protocol]] and the [[gopher protocol]] were used to retrieve individual files from a server. These protocols offer a simple [[directory structure]] in which the user navigates and where they choose files to download. Documents were most often presented as plain text files without formatting or were encoded in [[word processor]] formats.