The Internet was first thought of in 1957. In 1991 the World Wide Web was
created by the creation of hyperlinks and graphical browsers. Since then
millions of people have joined the Net and the content and quality improve
on an almost daily basis.
The table below lists some of the steps in the history of the Web.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1957 | The Soviet Union launched Sputnik. The Americans became a trifle worried at the thought of overhead missiles and created ARPA (Advanced Research Project) to try and create a system so that they could decentralize communication. |
| 1962 | The Universities became involved |
| 1969 | First ARPANET node was established - 2 computers talked to each other |
| 1972 | ARPANET has it's first public demonstration. The first e-mail program is written. |
| 1973 | ARPANET goes International - USA, UK and Norway Universities link up. |
| 1982 | TCP/IP protocol is adopted as the standard |
| 1983 | ARPANET is split into ARPANET and MILNET |
| 1989 | Over 1,000 hosts. New Zealand joins the Net |
| 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee at CERN university releases WWW - The World Wide Web - a graphical web browser. It uses hypertext - underlined links to other pages |
| 1992 | The Internet Society is formed. Over 1,000,000 hosts |
| 1993 | WWW growth rate is a staggering 341,634%! The Web is here to stay |
Computers have a "half-life" of around 2 years. Software develops so
fast that every 2 years we start desiring the latest models of both software
and hardware.
When designing web pages try not to forget the people with the older
machines. Many are still cruising the Net with slow modems and graphics
turned off to increase speed. Please don't make pages too long or too
complicated.
Browsers currently in use
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