Introduction to WWW
Past  Present  Future
History
1945: Memex, an idea of a photoelectrical-mechanical device. Able to
navigate the enormous stored data
 1962: ARPANET
 1980: Tim Berners-Lee writes a
notebook program, “Enquire-WithinUpon-Everything“ The 1st Web like file
interface architecture.
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1989:
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1993:
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"Information Management: A Proposal" written by
Tim BL
Tim BL makes up "WorldWideWeb" as a name for
the browser/editor program
The 1st web page was created
WWW traffic measures 1% of NSF backbone traffic.
NCSA releases Mosaic browser
1994: World Wide Web Consortium founded
Internet & WWW Terminology
TCP/IP
 HTTP
 Server  Client
 ISP
 Internet Connection (Bandwidth)
 Internet/Intranet/Extranet
 Browser
 Domain & Domain name
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HTML / SGML
 FTP
 UNIX / Windows
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