HISTORY OF THE W.W.W.How we got web design:

Where it all began

October 4th 1957 Sputnik is launched by the USSR

History of the Internet

DOD (Department of Defense) ARPA (Advanced Research Projects

Agency) advance science and technology for military applications 1962 - Started looking into ways of

controlling weaponry in the event of nuclear attack.

ARPANET is born

1967 - ARPA sets up ARPANET Now UCSB, UCLA, SRI (Stanford) and

University of Utah are hooked together. (4 hosts)

ARPANET – cables laid & protocols developed “rules” - Protocols (standards of communication)

Email and domains

1972 – email is created by BBN (the contractor who set up ARPANET for ARPA) (23 hosts now connected)

• 1983 – DNS (domain name system) created by U of Wisconsin, –domain names created.– (562 hosts now connected)

HTML & WWW

1990 – Tim Berners-Lee (at CERN) begins HTML as a way of conveying information easily & quickly.

HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE• (313,000 hosts connected)

• 1992 –World Wide Web launched by CERN• (1,136,000 hosts connected)

• 1993–Mosaic, the first visual browser is launched• (2,056,000 hosts connected)

The man behind the curtain

1994 – Ecommerce emerges• Pizza hut begins taking orders over the

web• First Internet bank opens

(3,864,000 hosts connected)• 2005 – Today

• (over 4 billion)

Sources

Browser Statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

History of the Internet New Perspectives on Creating Web

Pages – Carey, 2005