History
of Website &
Internet
Overview of Internet
The Internet (portmanteau of interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer
networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of
networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global
scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet
carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents
and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.
Overview of Internet
Who invented the Internet?
A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today. Below is a listing of different people
who have helped contribute to and develop the Internet.
The idea
The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock after he published his first paper entitled
"Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.
In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider became the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. Also,
with ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network that later
became ARPANET.
ARPANET
Short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network,ARPANET or ARPAnet began development
in 1966 by the United States ARPA. ARPANET was a Wide Area Network linking many Universities and
research centers, was first to use packet switching, and was the beginning of what we consider the Internet
today. ARPANET was created to make it easier for people to access computers, improve computer
equipment, and to have a more effective communication method for the military.
First equipment
First network equipment
On August 29, 1969, the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment called "IMP"
(Interface Message Processor)
FIRST message
The first message and network crash
On Friday, October 29, 1969, at 10:30 p.m., the first Internet message was sent from computer science
Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at UCLA, to a computer at SRI.
(Stanford Research Institute)
FIRST message
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the
World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). Founded and currently led by Tim Berners-Lee, the
consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of
working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.
Overview of Web
Web development is the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or
an intranet (a private network).
Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web-
based internet applications (web apps), electronic businesses, and social network services. A more
comprehensive list of tasks to which web development commonly refers, may include web
engineering, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side scripting, web
server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development.
Overview of Web
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) with support from the European
Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Overview of Web
August 6, 1991
The first web page went live on August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web
project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, CERN. The first web page address was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
