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History of the Web

By camaro2013
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    Defence department

    Defense department, worried about nuclear war, set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), later renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  • Packet Switching

    Packet swithing tested between two computers, one at the University of California and the other at the University of Utah. It worked and ARPANET was created.

  • Transatlantic Cables Lain

    Transatlantic cables lain making it possible for an international network.

  • Companies get involved

    Large companies begin adding their own networks

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET grows to include over 200 smaller networks

  • ARPANET Split

    There was so much traffic on the network that the Defense Department split it into ARPANET and MILNET, MILNET was a military network.

  • CSNET

    National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Computer Science Network (CSNET) for use by educational and research institutions that did not have acces to ARPANET.

  • Host computers

    There are 2000 host computers.

  • NSFNET

    NSF, NASA, and the Department of Education fund CSNET and it becomes the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)

  • Global Enterprise

    NSF allowed two commercial e-mail services to connect to the network (MCI and CompuServe) which set loose a huge growth and development of the global enterprise side of the web.

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web has become a reality, Web traffic on NSFNET measured 0.1% of the total traffic on this network.

  • WWW grows

    Grew from 0.1% to 1%

  • Host Computers

    There are 1 million host computers

  • Host Computers

    There are 2 million host computers

  • Host computers

    There are 5 million host computers

  • Host computers

    There are 15 million host computers

  • Host computers

    There are 20 million host computers.

  • Host computers

    There are 30 million host computers

  • Host computers

    There are 40 million host computers

  • Host computers

    There are 70 million host computers

  • Host computers

    There are 110 Million host computers