2. History of the World Wide Web By Jim Payne

3. Early History In 1962, the Rand Corporation was working on a project for the US military. They asked the question: How would the US military communications systems withstand a nuclear attack?

5. THE INTERNET

6. Growth of the Technologies 1972First Email 1975Gates & Allen start Microsoft 1975Beta & VHS videotapes 1976Jobs & Wozniak start Apple 1981CSNET & BITNET are born 1983TCP/IP is born

7. Terminology TCP/IPTransmission Control Protocol/ Internet ProtocolTCP/IP A common language that computers on the Internet use to communicate. Any computer that understands TCP/IP can connect to the Internet.

8. Birth of the World Wide Web 1992 Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist in Geneva Switzerland came up with the term World Wide Web - WWW - W3 June 1993 Marc Andreesen & others at NCSA - University of Illinois developed Mosaic - 1st Web Browser

9. Terminology HTTPHyperText Transport ProtocolHTTP Hypertext Transport Protocol. The protocol used to signify an Internet site is a World-Wide Web site. HTTP://WWW.UTULSA.EDU

10. Terminology HTMLHyperText Markup LanguageHTML A convention of codes used to access documents over the World-Wide Web. Without HTML codes, a document would be unreadable by a Web browser. The Language of the World Wide Web

11. Hosts on the Internet 1984 1,000 Internet Hosts 1987 10,000 Internet Hosts 1988 60,000 Internet Hosts 1989100,000 Internet Hosts 1992 1,000,000Internet Hosts

12. A Sleeping Giant Awakes June 1993 - Mosaic Prototyped April 1994 - Clark & Andreesen form a company named Mosaic Communications Oct 1994 - Netscape Beta released Nov 1994 - Co is renamed Netscape Aug 9th, 1995 - Netscape IPO

13. Explosion of the WEB Number of Hosts (Web Servers) Jan 93 1,313,000 Jan 94 2,217,000 Jan 95 4,852,000 Jan 96 9,472,224 Jan 9716,146,000 Jan 9840,000,000 Jan 9960,000,000 estimated [Source: CyberAtlas & Network Wizards]CyberAtlas

15. Web Users Current Estimates Range from 100 million to 148 million users of the world wide web Average Age = 32 64% have a college degree 32% are female Median Household Income = $60,000 [Sources: Advertising Age - Nielsen Surveys and NUA Internet Surveys]

16. Senior Web Users Current Estimates: Over 13 million US adults over age 50 have internet access (16% of the total US online population) 40% of US seniors own a home computer, up from 29% in 1995 70% of US seniors that have a computer are surfing the web Source: CyberAtlasCyberAtlas

17. Microsoft - MSFT

18. Cisco Systems - CSCO

19. Lucent Technologies - LU

20. America Online - AOL

21. Amazon.Com - AMZN

22. Ebay.Com - EBAY

23. Yahoo.com - YHOO

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