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Key Dates in History ( Source: www.internetvalley.com)
  • 1957 U.S.S.R Launches Sputnik
  • 1962-1968 U.S. establishes the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA)
  • 1969 Birth of Internet.
  • 1971 People communicate over network on ARPANET. This is e-mail.
  • 1973 First international ARPANET connections launch global networking.
  • 1976 Queen Elizabeth sends an e-mail.
  • 1979 News group born, interactive adventure games possible.
  • 1991 Tim Berners-Lee develops technology for a distribution hypermedia system and hyperlinks. Birth of world wide web.
  • 1991 Friendly user interface to www established replacing complex commands.
  • 1993 Graphical interface develops in to Netscape- a www browser.
  • 1994 Commercialization takes off. Shopping malls, banks arrive on the Internet.
  • 1995 Traditional online dial-up systems like America Online provide Internet access
  • 1998 20 million hosts, 2.2 million websites, 90,000 news groups.

What's Driving Internet Growth?

The Internet has been around for the better part of three decades, but has only taken off in the past 10 years. Here's why:

World Wide Web (www)
The 1991 of the world wide web - a collection of documents, or sites, that you can access the Internet and a browser - accelerated Internet growth because it provided easy access to global information (complex computer commands used to be required) and enable quick and easy website development. As recently as 1993 there were only 130 websites. Over 2.2 million in 1998. The web comprises the vast majority of the contents over the Internet, with news groups and e-mail coming a distant second and third.

Browsers
Website reside on computers called Internet servers. When you're connect to the Internet, Your web browser communicates with Internet Servers, ask them to send to your computer a copy of the web page you'd like to see. The introduction of this user-friendly interface to help People move around, find information and visit websites has - in conjunction with www -helped popularize the Internet.

Java
The introduction of Sun Microsystems' Java programming Language is the latest driver speeding Internet growth and development. Java language allows programmers to write software that runs on any operating system so innovation can occur on mass.

 

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