History of the internet

Sir Tim Berners- Inventor of the WorldWideWeb or as we know it now, the internet

ARPANET- The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was one of the world's first operational Packet switcing networks, the first network to implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet. Packet switching, today the dominant basis for data communications worldwide, was a new concept at the time of the conception of the ARPANET. Prior to the advent of packet switching, both voice and data communications had been based on the idea of curcuit switcing.

CERN- The European Organization for Nuclear Research  known as CERN is a European research organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest partical physics laboratory. CERN's main function is to provide the Particle accelarators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN following international collaborations. It is also the birthplace of the Wold Wide Web.

Boadband- The term broadband refers to the wide bandwidth characteristics of a transmission medium and its ability to transport multiple signals and traffic types simultaneously. The medium can be coax, optical fiber, twisted pair or wireless. In contrast, baseband describes a communication system in which information is transported across a single channel.

Dial-up -Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a dialed connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) via telephone lines. The user's computer or router uses an attached modem to encode and decode Internet Protocol packets and control information into and from analogue audio frequency signal.

Hypertext - HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites. The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Although Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the way Web pages are made and used.


1980-81 -Berners lee created the world wide web at his job at CERN on his computer to display HyperText and hisd computer was the first server ever on the internet.

1995 - Stanards of quality were getting higher as people were now helping do this to the net. Many notable websites were up and running now. The internet was growing now and more people were hearing of it, the TIME magaizne did a front cover on how the internet is the next best thing. Email was also now running and being used by many.

1999- A big year for the net, Broadband was tested for the first time and google, the biggest search engine was created. Also AOL messenger was also running now and was the first 'social network' of any kind, people could communicate easily with basic text over the internet.