ICT 102- WEB TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTERS HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Flashcards about the history of the internet

The (ARPA)

US government agency formed in 1958 to create a network to monitor and control weapons, leading to the development of ARPANET.

was a better way of sending messages.

A method of message transmission that improved upon circuit switching and was adopted by ARPANET.

The ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) was introduced in

The year the ARPANET was introduced, connecting four supercomputers.

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider and Robert Bob Taylor the ideas of how would the ARPANET work.

Introduced the ideas of how the ARPANET would work during their directorship in the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of ARPA.

Joseph Carl Robnett (J.C.R) was Director of ARPA's IPTO in 1962

Director of ARPA's IPTO in 1962.

Larry Roberts was the and program manager for ARPANET

The principal architect and program manager for ARPANET.

Initially it was only connected to four nodes at per lines.

The rate at which the initial four nodes of ARPANET were connected.

The four nodes are based at the following sites: , Stanford Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Sta. Barbara, and University of Utah

The first sites where the four nodes were based.

The first ever message sent over the internet was

The first message sent over the internet.

Upon sending only was received because the network crashed

The first two letters received of the first message sent over the internet before the network crashed.

In , ARPANET grew and had a total of 15 nodes

The year ARPANET grew to a total of 15 nodes.

invented the e-mail

Who invented the e-mail (electronic mail).

Tomlinson also introduced the “ sign” (@).

The sign introduced by Tomlinson with e-mail.

was developed by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1973.

Protocol developed by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, becoming a standard for interconnecting to the ARPANET.

Vinton Cerf is considered as

Considered 'The Father of the Internet'.

CSNET (Computer Science Network), BITNET (“because It’s True” Network), and were networks built independent of ARPANET

Networks built independent of ARPANET.

– a set of rules or standard procedure that allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a network

The set of rules that allows a user to transfer files between computers over a network.

and Robert Calliau created the World Wide Web (WWW)

Created the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN.

He invented the Web in and wrote the first web client and server in 1990

The year Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web.

In 1992, was the first internet browser

The first internet browser and graphical browser.

By 1993, , a graphical Internet browser, was released by Marc Andreesen

The graphical Internet browser released by Marc Andreesen at NCSA.

In 1996, , the first webmail service, was launched.

The webmail service launched in 1996.

went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.

Launched in 1998, revolutionizing online information retrieval.

one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media, launched in 2001.

Launched in 2001, paving the way for collective web content generation/social media.

, referring to websites and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that are highly interactive and user-driven became popular around 2004.

A reference to websites and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that are highly interactive and user-driven.