There are dedicated blogs, forums, and foundations that spread awareness among people on issues related to the web. People had the idea for the internet long before the technology to create it actually existed. In the early s technology finally began to catch up with some of these ideas.
This is a method for effectively transmitting electronic data and it would become one of the major building blocks of the internet. The system sent its first node-to-node message on October 29, , between a computer at UCLA and a computer at Stanford.
In the years that followed, engineers Vinton Cerf also known as 'father of the internet' and Robert Cahn developed a communication model that standardized data transmission through multiple networks, they called it the Transmission Control Protocol TCP and Internet Protocol IP. The Web was originally conceived to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, Berners-Lee wrote and formalised an outline of the principal concepts and important terms behind the Web.
To keep it from being accidentally switched off, there was a hand-written label on the computer in red ink: " This machine is a server. In , the source code for the WWW project was released for the public and CERN also made the information sharing system freely available to all.
These steps laid the foundation of the open and easily accessible modern-day web services. Its initial purpose was to link computers at Pentagon-funded research institutions over telephone lines. Military commanders wanted a computer communications system that had no central core, headquarters or base of operations that could be destroyed or interrupted by an attack.
An earlier system, called SAGE Semi-Automatic Ground Environment had been developed which used computers to track incoming enemy aircraft and to coordinate military response.
He spent only two years there, but his work helped to demilitarize the agency. He emphasised interactive computing and the notion that humans teamed with computers could create a better world. Taylor had access to three teletype terminals, hooked up to time-sharing mainframe computers at Systems Development Corp.
He was able to watch local users connect through these mainframes and realized that people were using them to exchange messages and share files, and that interactive communities were forming around the machines.
Taylor also realized that it would be more efficient if there were a single computer-language protocol that could allow any terminal to communicate with any other terminal. In , the music and video piracy controversy intensifies with the launch of Napster. While myriad internet-based businesses become present in everyday life, the Dow Jones industrial average also sees its biggest one-day drop in history up to that point.
By , most publicly traded dotcom companies are gone. This decade also sees the rise and proliferation of Wi-Fi — wireless internet communication — as well as mobile internet devices like smartphones and, in , the first-ever internet cat video.
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