History of the World Wide Web

By

Jim Payne

Early History

• In 1962, the Rand Corporation was working on a project for the US military. They asked the question: How would the US military communications systems withstand a nuclear attack?

THE INTERNET

Growth of the Technologies

• 1972 First Email

• 1975 Gates & Allen start Microsoft

• 1975 Beta & VHS videotapes

• 1976 Jobs & Wozniak start Apple

• 1981 CSNET & BITNET are born

• 1983 TCP/IP is born

Terminology

• TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

A common language that computers on the Internet use to communicate. Any computer that understands TCP/IP can connect to the Internet.

Birth of the World Wide Web

• 1992 Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist in Geneva Switzerland came up with the term World Wide Web - WWW - W3

• June 1993 Marc Andreesen & others at NCSA - University of Illinois developed Mosaic - 1st Web Browser

Terminology

• HTTP HyperText Transport Protocol

Hypertext Transport Protocol. The protocol used to signify an Internet site is a World-Wide Web site.

HTTP://WWW.UTULSA.EDU

Terminology

• HTML HyperText Markup Language

A convention of codes used to access documents over the World-Wide Web. Without HTML codes, a document would be unreadable by a Web browser.

The Language of the World Wide Web

Hosts on the Internet

• 1984 1,000 Internet Hosts

• 1987 10,000 Internet Hosts

• 1988 60,000 Internet Hosts

• 1989 100,000 Internet Hosts

• 1992 1,000,000 Internet Hosts

A Sleeping Giant Awakes

• June 1993 - Mosaic Prototyped

• April 1994 - Clark & Andreesen form a company named Mosaic Communications

• Oct 1994 - Netscape Beta released

• Nov 1994 - Co is renamed Netscape

• Aug 9th, 1995 - Netscape IPO

Explosion of the WEBNumber of Hosts (Web Servers)

• Jan 93 1,313,000• Jan 94 2,217,000• Jan 95 4,852,000• Jan 96 9,472,224• Jan 97 16,146,000• Jan 98 40,000,000• Jan 99 60,000,000 estimated

[Source: CyberAtlas & Network Wizards]

Internet HostsSource: Cyberatlas

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1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Web Users

• Current Estimates Range from 100 million to 148 million users of the world wide web

• Average Age = 32

• 64% have a college degree

• 32% are female

• Median Household Income = $60,000

[Sources: Advertising Age - Nielsen Surveys

and NUA Internet Surveys]

Senior Web Users

• Current Estimates: Over 13 million US adults over age 50 have internet access (16% of the total US online population)

• 40% of US seniors own a home computer, up from 29% in 1995

• 70% of US seniors that have a computer are surfing the web

Source: CyberAtlas

Microsoft - MSFT

Cisco Systems - CSCO

Lucent Technologies - LU

America Online - AOL

Amazon.Com - AMZN

Ebay.Com - EBAY

Yahoo.com - YHOO

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