The Internet and the World Wide Web Internet History

Your Name, Pd. 3A, Comp. 282 Size of the Internet 2000 –United States 130 million users –Other countries 40 million users –United States 250 million users –Other countries 125 million users

Your Name, Pd. 3A, Comp. 283 What is the Internet? Worldwide network of computer networks linked together –Telephone lines –Dedicated T-1 lines –Fiber Optic cables –Microwave stations –Communication Satellites

What started interest in creating the Internet in 1955? Defense-related Soviet Union launched Sputnik—a telecommunications satellite 1957 President Eisenhower created ARPA—Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund and coordinate research Your Name, Pd. 3A, Comp. 284

5 History of the Internet 1955—ARPANet 1957—ARPA 1969—Supercomputers linked by telephone connections –UCLA –Stanford University –UC Santa Barbara –University of Utah 1984—HTML Tim Berners-Lee 1985—World Wide Web 1986—NSFnet 1991—Internet went Public.

Your Name, Pd. 3A, Comp. 286 World Wide Web Hypertext HTML Web page GUIs Browsers WWW or the Web Virtual Age