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Agenda
- Internet History
- Internet Evolution
- Internet Pioneers
- Internet Growth
- The Future of the Internet
- Conclusion
The History of the Internet Presented by the St. Martins Episcopal - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The History of the Internet Presented by the St. Martins Episcopal - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The History of the Internet Presented by the St. Martins Episcopal Technology Department Agenda Internet History Internet Evolution Internet Pioneers Internet Growth The Future of the Internet Conclusion
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Precursors of the Internet
The Internet could not have existed without the two major inventions of the 19th Century, electricity and the telegraph system. To a lesser degree, broadcast media such as radio and television
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What is the Internet?
Plain and simple: A worldwide system of interconnected networks and computers.
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What is a Network?
A computer network is an interconnection
- f a group of computers.
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Evolution of the Internet
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ARPANET
- Was the world's first operational
network, and the predecessor
- f the global Internet
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ARPANET
- ARPANET was developed by the U.S.
Department of Defense. One theory was that it was developed to survive a nuclear attack. That theory is often disputed by scientists.
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The Internet was an Accident!
- The Internet was a result of an
unsuccessful military and academic research program!
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Why is it called the Internet?
- Short for “internetworking.”
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The World Wide Web
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- The original Internet provided screens
full of text
- Great for sharing info and accessing the
Library of Congress
- Text was all one font and size
- BORING!
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GUIs
(Graphical User Interface)
- GUIs added some color and layout, but
still were not very interesting.
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The World Wide Web Saved the Internet!
- Hyperlinks were invented
www.stmsaints.com
- The mouse was invented to click on
hyperlinks
- The URL (Uniform Resource Locater)
was invented. This allowed sites to be named.
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Creation of the World Wide Web
- Tim Berners Lee brought all of this
together to form the World Wide Web in 1990.
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Mosaic: The First Web Browser
- Very slow
- Did not handle loading pictures very
well
- Modems were very slow
- Did not give an indication of the
potential of this medium
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1994 – A Big Year for the WWW
- Tim Berners Lee in develops the World
Wide Web Consortium to develop standards for the Web
- Netscape is founded
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The Explosion of the Internet
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1994 -- 2000
- The Internet exploded during this
period.
- The first commercial site was
Amazon.com.
- In 1994 the World Wide Web grew by
an astounding 2300 percent!
- Amazon saw that online shopping was
the wave of the future.
- The rest is history…
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Browser Wars
- Netscape was the standard until 1998
- It folded and was taken over by AOL
- Microsoft Internet Explorer snagged
96% of the browser market
- IE has only recently been challenged by
the excellent Mozilla browser
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Future of the Internet
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Internet II
- So many businesses and private
citizens have come online that academic users can't get the high- speed connections they need.
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Internet II
- Organized as a consortium
- Led by over 200 universities
- Dedicated network for educational and
research purposes
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