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APRANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (APRANET) was the first operational packet switching network in the work. It’s also the core netwrok that came to create the global internet. It was funded by DARPA in the United States Department of Defence to be used as projects by universities and other research labs in the US. -
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History of the internet
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First email
In July 1971, Dick Watson proposed the first email. It was then implemented and developed further to become the emails we use in today's time. -
News groups and bulletin boards
Online newsgroup were formed in the mid 70's. This was an online storage of news and discussions by people all around the world. This is similar to discussion groups such as forums. -
TCP/IP protocol and National Science Foundation
Although the National Science Foundation was first formed in 1950, it became widely known around 1980's. It's an agency that supports research that is fundamental in engineering and education fields of science. In the year of 1983 flag day was proposed since it was the day the TCP/IP protocols were officially approved on the APRANET by replacing the old NCP protocol. -
Domain name addressing
A domain name is a system that is recognised for assigning address to a website. The domain name system helps to give all internet servers an easy to spell and memorable address. At the same time, it also keeps technical IP addresses invisble for the majority of views. Examples of a domain name is google.com; once this domain name is typed into the URL box on a browser, the user will be directed to Google automatically. -
Search engines
The first search engine created on the internet was called Archie. The name of the search engine stands for archive without the letter v. It was created in the year of 1990 by Bill Heelan, J.Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage. They were all computer science students at McGill University in Montreal. This search engine downloaded directory listings of files located on sites and created a very searchable database of file names. However, the Archie search engine didn’t index some of the contents of the -
World wide web
The World Wide Web also known as www is a system of hypertext documents that are interlined and can be accessed by using the internet. The user must be able to have a web browser in order to view the web pages that contain images, texts, videos and other multimedia features and navigate between them by using the hyperlinks. The world wide web was created by Tim Berners Lee. -
First widely used web browser
In 1993, three years after the world wide web was introduced, people began to use a web browser called Mosaic. It became very popular due to its easily understood user interface and the reliability. It was also easy to install and everyone could access it as long as they had internet connection and a computer. Mosaic went down in history because it was the very first browser that displayed images instead of displaying the pictures in separate windows. -
10 million users
According to the internet growth statistic, it was recorded that the internet was widely used by 10 million people around the world in 1997. -
Dot com bubble burst
The dot com bubble was often referred to as the internet bubble and it was a speculative bubble that covered around 1995-2000 stock markets. It was powered by tech industries and internet sites. However, the bubble burst and many people lost their money, which caused an economic recession. -
Web 2.0
The term web 2.0 was first used in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci. It's an intersection of web applications and features such as user centered design, collaboration and information sharing on the world wide web. In today's time, the web 2.0 is better and improved compared to web 1.0 because we have Google, Flickr, wikis and cost per click services on the world wide web.
