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Internet was "born"
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense linked together mainframe computers to form a communication network
The early version of the Internet was known as ARPANet -
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Expansion of ARPANet
Developments encouraged the expansion of the network into Europe. Continued growth in the 1980s The most popular use was e-mail -
World Wide Web was developed
Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web (WWW) at the European Laboratory
World Wide Web is a collection of millions of hypertext documents ** Hypertext Documents contain hyperlinks.
The links lead users to another World Wide Web site
Web paged are identified by addresses known as URL (universal resource locators) Hypertext documents are mostly written in a Web authoring language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) -
ARPANet split into two parts
ARPANet split into two parts: ARPANet and MILNet Defence Agencies and the military used MILNet ARPANet served as a research and development network -
NCSA Mosaic developed
NCSA Mosaic was developed at the National Center of Supercomputing Applications and was distributed for free to the public -
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NSFNet created high speed network
National Science Foundation (NSF) created a new high-speed network.
The speed of ARPANet backbone was no longer sufficient for the high demands of the research communities **Backbone: Term used to describe a structure that handles the major traffic in a networked system TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) network protocol became the accepted means of communication across networks TCP/IP was available for free -
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Internet Service Providers
Business or personal users could set up Internet accounts with telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISP) -
Teachers teach through cellphones
Schools will soon be learning off cellphones. There is an app invented to teach kids how to add, subtract, read etc. -
Computer monitors will be extinct
Humans will no longer have the option to work on a computer. There will only be laptops or tablets.