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History of the WWW HFE 451/651
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Prior to 1989 J.C.R. Licklider of MIT writes series of memos discussing his "Galactic Network" concept in 1962. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.
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Prior to 1989 Internet was strictly text-based computer linked network. Consisted primarily of email, news groups, research text/data files, program utility files. Used in a universally agreed upon protocol standard. –TCP/IP (Transport Control Protocol/Interface Program
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1989 Tim Berners-Lee (European Particle Physics Lab) Envisioned an organized, categorized, searchable set of linked files Established a TCP/IP based protocol using HTML
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1993 University of Illinois, National Center for SuperComputing Applications (NCSA) Developed graphical user interface web browser – Mosaic Univ of Illinois master copyright license – Spyglass Marc Andeersen student working at NCSA
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1994 Marc Andreesen and Jim Clark establish Netscape Corporation producing Netscape Navigator web browser. Server program sold to Internet entrepreneurs $1500 Client program distributed to universities and students for free Navigator was the preeminent WWW browser, Microsoft not yet a player. World Wide Web Consortium establihsed in October 94 –This group is the coordinating facilitators of HTML protocols and standards for WWW.
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Summer 1995 Sun MicroSystems released Java cross-platform programming language Netscape Navigator 2.0 released included Java script. Netscape goes public Microsoft Windows 95 includes Internet Explorer with Java script and VBscript.
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1999 Netscape Communicator 4.5 (JavaScript 1.2) Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (JavaScript and VB Script) HTML 3.2 and 4.0
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2000 Netscape Navigator on version 4.61 Microsoft Explorer 5.0
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Timeline
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Links for History of the WWW http://www.vissing.dk/Internet.History/ihistlist.html
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Growth of WWW
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