The History of the World Wide Web

By QuinnTech

  • ARPA

    ARPA
    ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) started working on creating the internet. This job was assigned to them by the US Department of Defence during the Cold War. The World Wide Web is essentially a building block on top of the internet. So the invention of the internet was critical to the WWW. http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles6/world-wide-web-evolution.htm

  • A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate

    Ted Nelson coins the term Hypertext in this book. http://www.w3.org/History.html

  • The linking

    During this year 15 nodes created a network for the first time. These computers were in various Universities around the United States. A few examples of these universities are MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/important-events-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web.html

  • Email

    The first program that allowed computers to send messages called emails to each other was created by John Vittal. This was vital to the creation of the World Wide Web becuase it was the first communication program developed. The Program was named MSG.

  • "Enquire Within Upon Everything"

    "Enquire Within Upon Everything"
    Tim Berner-Lee used this book as insperation for his idea of the World Wide Web as a place where everything could be found in just one location. "Enquire Within Upon Everything" also prompted the title the World Wide Web that eerner's Lee came up with. History of the World Wide Web

  • DNS

    DNS
    Domain Name Service was created by Paul Mockapetris. This allows a person to type in a URL and the browser will send it to that server. This replaced an older version called the Host Table. http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Protocols/dns.php

  • Cyberspace

    Cyberspace
    In the work Neuromancer, the term of cyberspace. Neuromancer was written by William Gibson. Cyberspace is where the communication in the world online takes place. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cyberspace

  • Symbolic.com

    The first Domain is reserved. It is called Symbolic.com. http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

  • Proposal

    Proposal
    Tim Berners-Lee published a paper pertaining to how the World Wide Web would operate. This paper was titled Information Management: A Proposal. The publishing of this paper was the first step to the invention of the World Wide Web. http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles6/world-wide-web-evolution.htm

  • Tim Nelson

    Tim Nelson uses hypertext GUI browser+editor on NeXTStep. Here he creates a program which he names the WorldWideWeb. This is the program that will eventuallty become the world wide web we know today. http://www.w3.org/History.html

  • The First Web Page

    As the WorldWide Web continues to develop, acheivements and mile markers are made. The first web site was set up November and had the URL http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. It is the longest known unchanged web site in history. http://www.w3.org/History.html

  • Public Axis

    The public first had access to the we server/browser that was made by Berners-Lee

  • Display Images

    Display Images
    The first browser that had the ability to display images was invented. This allows the websites to have pictures on them. It was called the Mosaic browser and was created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles6/world-wide-web-evolution.htm