The internet began as a connection between two computers,
located at UCLA and Stanford. This first
connection did not come about without much work done before its creation. In 1958 the Advance Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), which was an initiative of the U.S. Department of Defense during the
Cold War. The ARPANET was built and
after some time it had four computers connected that could send data. Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn are credited as
the fathers of the internet because of there work on the creation of internet protocols
that still are in use to this day.
The World Wide Web is not the same as the internet despite
common belief. The World Wide Web, or just
the Web, was designed by Tim Berners-Lee as a
means to share his research documents with other researchers. With the help of Robert Cailliau, the
first web browser was developed in 1991, it was very primitive and could only
support text. Two years after this the
Mosaic Browser was released which could support graphics as well as text. This later evolved into the Netscape Browser
which grew in popularity and help to increase the size of the Web. This remained as the most widely used web
browser until 1999 when Windows Internet Explorer took the lead. Since then
many other web browsers have been released and updated into smoothing
running programs but the protocols that run them remain the same.
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