What is the history of the world wide web?

Answer 1

Brief history of a single computer:

1. built
2. sold
3. used
4. trashed/scrapped

Brief history of computers in general is much too long to post here, if thats what you really wanted. Besides if I had enough information to write it I'd write a book, hoping to make money, not posting it here for free.

Answer 2

The Internet was created as a result of the Cold War. In the mid 1960s it became apparent that there was a need for a bomb-proof electronic communication system.Because of a concept developed by Larry Roberts of ARPA and Glen Kleinrockat UCLA, called packet switching, the internet was able to become a decentralized system, which would prevent large-scale destruction of any centralized system. The system allowed different types of computers from different manufacturers to send messages to one another.In 1972 Ray Tomlinsoninvented network e-mail, which became possible with the FTP. In 1984 the National Science Foundation (NSF)developed NSFNET.However, in 1989 a second miracle occurred. Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer at the CERN physics lab in Switzerland, developed a set of accepted protocols for the exchange of Internet information, and a consortium with users was formed-thus creating the World Wide Web, the standard language for encoding information. Hypertext MarkuphtmlLanguage(HTML) was adopted.As a result of Berners-Lee's invention, in 1993 a group at the University of Illinois, headed by Mark Andreesen, wrote a graphical application called Mosaic to make use of the Web easier. The next year a few students from that group, including Andreesen, co-foundedNetscape after they graduated in May and released the browser for the World Wide Web in November 1994.

Answer 3

The history of the Internet is a bit too long to describe here in one or two paragraphs. You can find a history of the Internet in the Wikipedia article "History of the Internet". The introductory paragraphs give you a summary; or you can read the entire article for more details.

Answer 4

First there was ARPAnet, then there was Internet.

Simple enough?

Answer 5

The world wide web started with ARPANET.