What A Brief History of the World Wide Web by 600Host UK

What A Brief History of the World Wide Web by 600Host UK

The Internet as we know it today began within the U.S. military branch known as ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the early 1960s. Its head, J.C.R. Licklider, formed an informal group to further computer research. Three computer terminals were set up to share information about computer development from around the country. One connected to Berkeley, one to M.I.T., and one to the System Development Corporation in Santa Monica. If a government researcher was talking to someone from Berkeley and wanted to include an M.I.T. user in the discussion, he or she had to get up and move to a different terminal, acting as the go-between for the various terminals. With some information sharing comes the desire for infinite sharing, and Licklider wrote in his seminal paper, "Man-Computer Symbiosis", that "there ought to be one terminal that goes anywhere you want to go." This vision gave rise to ARPAnet, the precursor to the Internet.

Flash forward to the end of 1969. Licklider's successor, Robert Taylor, oversaw the creation of the first nodes of what would be the World Wide Web, in various universities across the country. ARPAnet grew slowly and with many restrictions in comparison with sites like UK Web Hosting in the modern era, with only 213 hosts by 1981. Meanwhile, other networks sprouted up, like the UUCP between Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill, which grew more quickly due to a lack of commercial or user restrictions.

The 1970s and 80s saw the flourishing of research into what would become the basic technologies underlying the modern-day Internet, such as TCP/IP connection, packet switching, FTP, and email and SMTP protocols, as well as cultural uses of those technologies such as Usenet forums and MUDs (the first multiplayer online games, entirely text-based). There was no unified network by this time, since the various networks had disputes over what could and couldn't be sent over them. By this time, only the nerds in the know were able to get "online," such as it was. The rise of the personal computer was only just beginning, and the tools and systems available were far from user-friendly.

It would take until 1992's introduction of the Mosaic graphic web browser, the first truly user-friendly browser designed to surf any of the networks, so long as they used hypertext protocol. That's what the http and html mean at the end of webpages - hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext markup language. They mark the first successful attempt to systematize the web. Funding for the groundbreaking Mosaic browser came from the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991, written and promoted by then-Senator Al Gore. Now anyone with a computer could, through an easy-to-use graphical interface, surf the web for information. With the first systematized language and a sudden influx of interested users, more and more people developed content for the Internet. Free web hosting sites like Angelfire and Geocities sprouted up, and the wild, woolly and free period of the Internet in the 90s began.

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