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Internet vs World Wide Web

   The Internet is a vast computer network that not only allows people to access and share immense amounts of digital information but also provides communication tools to connect people around the globe. The earliest workable prototype of the Internet was developed in the late 1960s with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). Unfortunately, the ARPA network crashed in 1969 after only sending the first two letters of a message to a Stanford computer from UCLA. In 1980, scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The Internet was originally used to connect a single network between two computers, but with the invention of TCP/IP, it became the larger and faster system of interconnected networks that we use today. 

The World Wide Web is a way to view and share information over the Internet. The Web was originally drafted when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, wanted to solve the problem of having to log on to different computers and sometimes learn new programs to access information at a physics laboratory called CERN. In March 1989, Sir Tim used the emerging technology of hypertext, the linking of related documents by electronic connections, to lay out his first design of the Web in a report called “Information Management: A Proposal”. 

 Sir Tim’s first design of the Web

The Web was initially used to solve the information-sharing problem at CERN, but Tim realized that its potential would be intensified if anyone could use the Web anywhere and for free. Therefore, in April 1993, Sir Tim and others defended the case to CERN that would guarantee that the Web would be available on a no-charge basis, forever. The Web is now used to access large amounts of (free) information on the Internet on a daily basis.

    The Web and the Internet are not the same despite what most people might think. If the Internet was a large book-store, the Web would be a collection of books in the store. They both work together to allow people across the world to share information, collaborate, and communicate. The first web page was created by Sir Tim in 1991 and it contained information on the World Wide Web project. The web page is still up and the url is http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. 

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“History of the Web.” World Wide Web Foundation, 2018, webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/. Accessed 1 Sept. 2020.

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