History of Internet
Although the basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible had existed for almost a decade, the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.
An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW based upon HyperCard. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 usage of the word "Internet" had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its misuse as a reference to the World Wide Web.
Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks, such as FidoNet, have remained separate). During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100% per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997. This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network
2007-12-27 03:21:25
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answered by An ESL Learner 7
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The internet was created by a consortium of US Government agencies in conjunction with a number of universities. It was given to the world at large as a tax free means of communications and was to be open to all peoples of the world. Countries like China currently sensor the internet and that is just wrong. It is probably the only good thing to come out of the Pentagon ever.
2007-12-27 11:15:36
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answered by Anonymous
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Yahoo?
Bill Gates?
Google?
Mozilla?
Netscape?
http://www.mathalino.com
2007-12-27 11:14:30
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answered by Toralba 2
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First, it was not VP Al Gore who has claimed he started
the internet.
The presumed beginning of the today's internet was
the ARPANET, a network for scientists to exchange
data for experiments and research starting around 1962.
From that beginning it has spread rapidly into what we
call the World Wide Web of today.
2007-12-27 11:14:58
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answered by Chief70 2
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WWW was developed by an organisation called CERN...
CERN is actually a organisation for nuclear researches...
European Organization for Nuclear Research (means CERN)
2007-12-27 11:11:01
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answered by Sunny v 2
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The source has some information.
2007-12-27 11:19:18
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answered by cidyah 7
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yahoo?
2007-12-28 08:55:17
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answered by damohxy 3
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