HISTORY OF THE INTERNET By Eric Kleist Internet

HISTORY OF THE INTERNET By: Eric Kleist

Internet Users in the World • 40% Of World Population Online • 9/10* People in USA Online * Rounded up

Coming Up: 3 Fun Facts • What does http: // mean? • Who put the WWW in every web address? • Why is there an @ sign in every email address?

Before The Internet. . . It was Arpanet • October 4 th, 1957 Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1 • Created fear of Nuclear Attack in the USA • USA Responded with DARPA, an agency to focus on improving communication in face of an attack

ARPANet Quickly Expanded • In 1969, DARPA was successful in linking the first two computers • Many more computers added to ARPAnet over the years

Email invented by…? • Email was invented before the Internet • AOL WAS NOT THE INVENTOR OF EMAIL!

FUN FACT: Email and the @ Sign • Email was invented in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson • USERNAME @ HOSTNAME (PERSON) (COMPUTER)

OFFICIAL Inventor of the WWW • Tim Berners-Lee worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) • Tim Noticed Scientists & Researchers weren’t publishing their findings • Tim envisioned a simple system where you could publish without strict formatting requirements.

Two Other Fun Facts… (and more) • WWW Stands for World Wide Web, which was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. • HTTP Stands for Hyper. Text Transfer Protocol • HTML Stands for Hyper. Text Markup Language • Tim Berner-Lee Invented HTML, HTTP, and the WWW. • If he could go back, guess what he would change?

Further Internet Advancements Programming Languages Web Browsers Websites & Apps

What We Covered • ARPAnet & The Cold War • The Invention of Email • The invention of the World Wide Web • Exciting time to be involved with technology!