The Internet did have a parent in a program called ARPANET, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The United States Department of Defense developed ARPANET in 1969 as a network for organizations involved in defense research and as a secure communications system that would also survive attack. One of the characteristics of ARPANET was that its data were transmitted in so-called packets tha…
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and other scientists at the international organization called CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, developed a computer protocol called the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that became the standard communications language between Internet clients and servers. Exchanges of information on the Internet take place between a server (a computer p…
The World Wide Web helped new users to explore the Internet and became known as the Web or www. The World Wide Web is a graphical map for the Internet that is simple to understand and helps the user navigate around Internet sites; without the Web, the Internet would have remained a mystery to those without computer training. Web browsers have made the huge blossoming of use of the Web possible. Fo…
In two years (from 1993-1995), the World Wide Web exploded from an unknown entity to one which pervades every aspect of life: access to libraries around the world, recipes and coupons for tonight's dinner, medical advice, details on how to build your own space shuttle, and shopping for everything from music to mortgages. By 1997, 47 million Americans had attempted to access the Internet, pr…
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