Wednesday, January 11, 2017

WEEK 7-8 INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB

BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNET

Dr. Gerald Urquhart Developed LBS 12 which came first - Internet or WWW?
Internet is a network of interconnected computers that is now global
Internet born in 1969 - called ARPANET
1969 ARPANET was connection of computers at UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, Univ. of Utah 
         1972 - Telnet developed as a way to connect to remote computer
1972 – Email introduced1977 - U. Wisconsin has first “large” Email system - 100 users
1973 - ARPANET goes international
1973 - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) established
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases World Wide Web!
TBL is computer programmer at CERN, a physics lab in Europe (new book
 Weaving the Web by TBL)
1993 - Mosaic (becomes Netscape) designed by graduate students at University of Illinois
first point-and-click browser
later developed into Netscape Navigator
These are the two most significant events in the formation of the WWW
 
 
 
 
 

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