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How we got web design:. History of the W.W.W. Where it all began. October 4 th 1957 Sputnik is launched by the USSR. History of the Internet. DOD (Department of Defense) ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) advance science and technology for military applications
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How we got web design: History of the W.W.W.
Where it all began October 4th 1957 Sputnik is launched by the USSR
History of the Internet • DOD (Department of Defense) • ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) advance science and technology for military applications • 1962 - Started looking into ways of controlling weaponry in the event of nuclear attack.
ARPANET is born • 1967 - ARPA sets up ARPANET Now UCSB, UCLA, SRI (Stanford) and University of Utah are hooked together. (4 hosts) • ARPANET – cables laid & protocols developed “rules” - Protocols (standards of communication)
Email and domains • 1972 – email is created by BBN (the contractor who set up ARPANET for ARPA) • (23 hosts now connected) • 1983 – DNS (domain name system)created by U of Wisconsin, • domain names created. • (562 hosts now connected)
HTML & WWW • 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee (at CERN) begins HTML as a way of conveying information easily & quickly. • HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE • (313,000 hosts connected) • 1992 –World Wide Web launched by CERN • (1,136,000 hosts connected) • 1993–Mosaic, the first visual browser is launched • (2,056,000 hosts connected)
The man behind the curtain • 1994 – Ecommerce emerges • Pizza hut begins taking orders over the web • First Internet bank opens • (3,864,000 hosts connected) • 2005 – Today • (over 4 billion)
Sources • Browser Statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp • History of the Internet • New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages – Carey, 2005