HISTORY OF THE INTERNET By: Eric Kleist
Internet Users in the World 40% Of World Population Online 9/10* People in USA Online * Rounded up
Coming Up: 3 Fun Facts What does http:// mean? Who put the WWW in every web address? Why is there an @ sign in every email address?
Before The Internet... It was Arpanet October 4th, 1957 Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1 Created fear of Nuclear Attack in the USA USA Responded with DARPA, an agency to focus on improving communication in face of an attack
ARPANet Quickly Expanded In 1969, DARPA was successful in linking the first two computers Many more computers added to ARPAnet over the years
Email invented by…? Email was invented before the Internet AOL WAS NOT THE INVENTOR OF EMAIL!
FUN FACT: Email and the @ Sign Email was invented in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson USERNAME @ HOSTNAME (PERSON) (COMPUTER)
OFFICIAL Inventor of the WWW Tim Berners-Lee worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Tim Noticed Scientists & Researchers weren’t publishing their findings Tim envisioned a simple system where you could publish without strict formatting requirements.
Two Other Fun Facts… (and more) WWW Stands for World Wide Web, which was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. HTTP Stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol HTML Stands for HyperText Markup Language Tim Berner-Lee Invented HTML, HTTP, and the WWW. If he could go back, guess what he would change?
Further Internet Advancements Programming Languages Web Browsers Websites & Apps
What We Covered ARPAnet & The Cold War The Invention of Email The invention of the World Wide Web Exciting time to be involved with technology!