Internet/World Wide Web

     Well, according to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, the internet is “an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world” (Merriam-Webster). Basically, what that definition means is that the internet is a globally used networking that connects computers, and other electronic devices, to provide communication and other services to the people. The formation of the internet itself can not really be accredited to one person alone and that is because the history of the internet is complex and has been thought up by multiple people before and there are other scientists/engineers who all had a hand in the beginning of the internet. Although, there are two scientists who are credited with its invention and for the use that we as a society utilize today. The first workable prototype was in the late 1960s “with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network” (History). It was funded by the U.S. department of defense and was used for allowing “multiple computers to communicate on a single network” (History). It delivered its first message on October 29, 1969 “LOGIN” before crashing the network. Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf are the ones who are credited with the creation of the internet because they “developed Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP” (History). The TCP/IP is the model that sets the standard communications usage. The ARPANET began utilizing the TCP/IP on January 1, 1983 and this became the modern internet but the form we use today is known as the World Wide Web.    

    The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web is the common way to access information online ‘in the form of websites and hyperlinks” (History). It is basically the way we use and access information online today. The web helped the public see and use the internet and was an incredibly crucial step in developing the internet that we all know and use today. The World Wide Web was first used for information sharing between scientists in universities and other places around the world. Today the World Wide Web is the service that basically presides over the internet. The first use of the internet was with the ARPANET system which was created for data transfer between two computer systems, also known as “packet switching” (Britannica). Today the internet is used for a myriad of different reasons as it has expanded far beyond what was previously conceptualized. Both the internet and World Wide Web work together to give us the modern technology that we use almost daily.

    The first ever website was created on August 6, 1991 and it was made by Tim Berners-Lee. The website “was hosted on his NeXT (company established by Steve Jobs) computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN” (the-first-ever.com). We can still see the original URL because of CERN’s initiative to restore it back in 2013.

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