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History of The Internet
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1958- Cold War orgins
in 1957, the Soviet Union launched an artificial satillite which made the U.S Department of Defense to work hard to do intense research in missile technology- this research lead to the development of the internet. -
IPTO
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Angency) created a department called IIPTO (Information Processing Technologies Office). -
UCLA
Leonard Kleinrock, a scientist at the University of California applied the first computor processor capable of handling a digital packet switched data on a UCLA host computor. -
BBN
Researchers at BBN and Stanford designed a way to link networks to each other called an Internetwork (Internet) after creating a software called Transmissiion Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). -
html
Berners Lee designed the web to encourage scientists to present multimedia info over the Internet, and created HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). -
Gopher
A program called Gopher developed at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, was finally available to the public. It organized information on the Interned for related topics. -
WAIS
Brewster Kahle invented the Wide Area Info Servers (WAIS) system. It permitted computer users to search files based on content. -
HTML continued
By this time, HTML was used to create about 50 sites on the Worl Wide Web. -
Hyperlinks etc.
Marc Anderson and Eric Bina developed browsing progtams that made it easier for people to het to the WWW, and created Mosaic, a way to display images directly on a web page. -
Progress for Mosaic
By this time, NCSA made Mosaic have free access, and tens of thousands of people downloaded copies of their own. -
Mosaic Netscape
Mosaic Communications launched a commercial Web browser called Mosaic Netscape, and the next month, the company changed their name to Netscape Communications Coorperation and the program's to Netscape Navigator. -
Internet Explorer
The Microsoft Coorperation released its own Web brownser called Internet explorer and became the worlds most popular explorer. -
Netscape Cont.
America Online Inc. purchased Netscape. -
Internet Popularity
Over half of personal computers in the United States used Internet Explorer, and a third used Netscape Navigator. -
Web Expansion
By this time, the Web expanced to more than 36 million sites, and thousands more added every single day.