IPS grew out of an organic need to modify things on the web quickly, for regular people and not programmers. The first part of it - the webpage editor - was written in 1993 and has been in daily use since then.

Over time, as the web and web pages evolved, certain things became clear about the nature of a website, a webpage and what addresses should look like and how one navigates around a website.

Best common practiecs were examined for all these and additional tools were developed to quickly organize and develop complex websites with the minimal amount of effort.

From here you can read about how we see the web and what the tool suite does exactly.