Tuesday, June 24, 2014

What is internet? History of world wide web


Sometimes you ask yourself something such as a history of burgers, Pho (Vietnamese Noodle Soup), internet, etc. So I pick the third one - internet. What is internet? "The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide." Why TCP/IP and what does TCP/IP stand for? TCP/IP is a set of networking protocols that allows two or more computers to communicate and basically stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

Starting from a simple page with links to allow a group of scientists to share data within the laboratory, but in the 20 years since then, it has become an indispensable part of the lives of billions of people. Not to be confused between WWW and internet. They are related to each other but not identical. Internet terminology, launched in 1974, refers to a vast network infrastructure connecting millions of computers. Meanwhile, the WWW is the method to access information through the Internet using web sites.

 Some interesting information about the World Wide Web: 
  1. Before choosing the name World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee had planned to use the name later given to the concept that he made: Information Mesh, Mine of Information, or The Information Mine.
  2. The first website and first web browser was written on the NeXT computer, the computer company founded by Steve Jobs after Jobs was kicked out of Apple. 
  3. The first web browser was written by Lee Berrners with C language, called WorldWideWeb. He took 3 months to complete. This browser only works on NeXT computer platform.  

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