Even in the 1950s when computers were first invented there was still no internet, or web for that matter. The first ideas for the internet came from many countries and was called "packet networking." One of these was ARPANET which would become the first network to use the internet protocol. The ARPANET lead to protocols for internetworking, where separate networks could join together to make a network of networks.
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In 1891 the Computer Science Network was founded, which in 1982 led to the introduction of the internet protocol suite that became the standard networking protocol on the ARPANET. At first interconnectivity was only offered to universities and science foundations, but in the late 1980 commercial internet service providers began to pop up giving more public access. But in 1990 the ARPANET was decommissioned, giving rise to private connections to the internet by commercial titles. By 1995 all restrictions had been removed from the internet that could block commercial traffic, making the internet a new world free from obstacles. But during all this the World Wide Web was also emerging thanks to a man named Tim Berners-Lee. In 1984 Lee went to work for CERN, and found many problems with its information management. He found that although people desperately needed to share information, they lacked any common equipment or software. In March 1989 Lee wrote a proposal for "a large hypertext database with typed links" to improve communication from machine to machine and make research much quicker. Although his idea drew little attention at first, his boss, Mike Sendall, encouraged him to implement his system in the new NeXT workstation. By Christmas 1990, Lee had built the tools he needed to make a working web: the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and the first web server called the WorldWideWeb. This in short married the internet and Hypertext together, creating the World Wide Web.
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What will our Web look like in the Future?
I would imagine much easier access to sites and less complicated programing. It will likely take on a much sleeker look while improving efficiency and mobility around the web and many fixed bugs and glitches. At least these are the first thing that come to my mind when I think of the future for the web, but its all just a guess, really.
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But of course the main thing we all can hope for in future of the web besides just technical improvements is that it will continue to be a positive influence in people's live. Such as continuing to provide long distance communication and many job opportunities.
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