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ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. -
DNS
the system by which Internet domain names and addresses are tracked and regulated. The domain name system maps the name people use to locate a website to the IP address that a computer uses to locate a website. -
TCP
transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, used to govern the connection of computer systems to the Internet. protocol: defines how computers send packets of data to each other. is a standard that defines how to establish and maintain a network conversation via which application programs can exchange data. -
World Wide Web
commonly known as the WWW and the Web, is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators, which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible via the Internet. -
Archie
The first few hundred web sites began in 1993 and most of them were at colleges, but long before most of them existed came Archie. The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage. -
Gopher
The Gopher protocol was strongly oriented towards a menu-document design and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) became the dominant protocol. -
CERN
The World Wide Web began as a CERN project named ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990. Berners-Lee and Cailliau were jointly honored by the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995 for their contributions to the development of the World Wide Web. -
USENET
Usenet began as a personal project for two Duke University graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis. They wished to replace a local BBS-style announcement system that was made obsolete with a recent hardware upgrade. -
Wifi
when a committee called 802.11 was created. This lead to the creation of IEEE802.11, which refers to a set of standards that define communication for wireless local area networks (WLANs).