The
Internet could not have existed without the two major inventions of the 19th Century, electricity and the telegraph
system.
To a
lesser degree, broadcast media such as radio and television
What
is the Internet?
Plain
and simple:
A
worldwide system of interconnected networks and computers.
What
is a Network?
A
computer network is an interconnection of a
group of computers.
Evolution
of
the Internet
Was
the world's first operational network, and the predecessor of the global
Internet
ARPANET
was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. One theory was that it was developed to
survive a nuclear attack. That theory is
often disputed by scientists.
The
Internet was an Accident
The
Internet was a result of an unsuccessful military and academic research
program!
Why
is it called the Internet?
Short
for “internetworking.”
The
World Wide Web
•The
original Internet provided screens full of text
•Great
for sharing info and accessing the Library of Congress
•Text
was all one font and size
•BORING!
GUIs
(Graphical
User Interface)
GUIs
added some color and layout, but still were not very interesting.
The
World Wide Web
Saved the Internet!
Hyperlinks
were invented
The
mouse was invented to click on hyperlinks
The
URL (Uniform Resource Locater) was invented.
This allowed sites to be named.
Creation
of the World Wide
Web
Tim
Berners Lee brought all of this together to form the World Wide Web in 1990.
Mosaic:
The First Web
Browser
Very
slow
Did
not handle loading pictures very well
Modems
were very slow
Did
not give an indication of the potential of this medium
1994
– A Big Year for the
WWW
Tim
Berners Lee in develops the World Wide Web Consortium to develop standards for
the Web
Netscape
is founded
The
Explosion of the
Internet
1994
-- 2000
The
Internet exploded during this period.
The
first commercial site was Amazon.com.
In
1994 the World Wide Web grew by an astounding 2300 percent!
Amazon
saw that online shopping was the wave of the future.
The
rest is history…
Browser
Wars
Netscape
was the standard until 1998
It
folded and was taken over by AOL
Microsoft
Internet Explorer snagged 96% of the browser market
IE
has only recently been challenged by the excellent Mozilla browser
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