Internet History

Tim Berners-Lee is credited with development of the WWW and HTML!

• 1969: ARPANET is brought online
  • Developed by DARPA
  • Basically, linked, global computers
  • At first: Four computers at US universities
• 1972: Email on ARPANET, by Ray Tomlinson
  
• 1987: 10,000 Internet hosts
  
• 1989: Peter Deutsch developed Archie
  • The first automated, searchable index of online files
• 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents WWW + HTML

Tim Berners-Lee

• TBL hoped to connect distributed physics researchers
• His system had 3 components:
  
  1. Uniform addresses
  2. Protocol for transmitting information
  3. Language for encoding information
• It was called WorldWideWeb.

Internet Timeline

• 1991: First draft of HTML is online
• 1993: First graphical web browser, Mosaic
  
  –Developed by Marc Andreessen
• 1994: Netscape Navigator is released
  
• 1995: Internet Explorer is released
  
• 1995: 10 million Internet hosts
• 1996: CSS becomes a W3C recommendation
• 1997: Dynamic HTML support in 4.0 browsers
  
• 1998: XML becomes a W3C recommendation
  
• 2000: 75 million Internet hosts
  
• 2004: 275 million Internet hosts