The History of the Internet and the Www

The History of the Internet and the WWW

1. The History of the World Wide Web-

The internet started out as an information resource for the government
so that they could talk to each other. They called it "The Industrucable
Network" because it was so many computers linked to gether that if one server
went down, no-one would know. This report will mainly focus on the history of
the World Wide Web (WWW) because it is the fastest growing resource on the
internet. The internet consists of different
protocals such as WWW, Gopher (Like
the WWW but text based), FTP (File Transfer Protocol),   and Telnet (Allows you
to connect to different BBS's). There are many more smaller one's but they are
inumerable. A BBS is an abbreviation
for Bullitin Board Service. A BBS is a
computer that you can ether dial into or access from the Internet. BBS's are
normally text based.

2. The Creator of the WWW-

A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is now with the Laboratory
for Computer Science ( LCS)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT).
He directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with
the mission to realize the full potential of the Web.

  With a background of system design in real-time communications and text
processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an
internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while
working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He spent two years
with Plessey elecommunications Ltd a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer,
working on distributed transaction systems, message relays, and bar code
technology.

  In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G Nash Ltd, where he wrote among
other things typesetting software for intelligent printers, a multitasking
operating system, and a generic macro expander.

  A year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six
month stint as consultant software engineer at CERN, the European... [continues]

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