CIS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Commerce, Etsy, Wikispaces

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1000
• Professor: Jing Yu Zhu

Document Summary

The origins of the internet: arpanet: the precursor to the internet. In the late 1950s, during the cold war, the u. s. armed forces became concerned that a soviet attack on their telephone system could completely shut down communication lines. In response to this and other concerns, in the early 1960s, the u. s. government created the. Arpanet delivered its first message from ucla to sri: although the system crashed after delivering the second letter of its message. login, it marked the beginning of the early internet. Arpanet steadily grew to include nodes all over the u. s. a. and overseas: the world wide web. In the early years of the internet"s existence, the web didn"t exist. In 1989, tim berners-lee began the development of the web as a means of linking research documents so that they could be easily accessed by other researchers. Robert cailliau, berners-lee developed the basic architecture of the web and the first web browser.