JMM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Uniform Resource Locator, World Wide Web Consortium, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
4 Apr 2017
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Internet origins: many historians say the internet began in the late 1950s with the creation of the department of defense"s advanced research projects agency (arpa) Arpa tasked with promoting scientific research: mid 70"s transmission control protocol/internet protocol (tcp/ip) allows information-sharing among different computer networks. Cerf (& robert kohn: late 80"s/early 90"s: hypertext transfer protocol (http) Tim berners-lee links hypertext documents on the internet. World wide web: 1993 mosaic graphical user interface developed by marc andreeson (later becomes netscape) Internet ownership/regulation: no single organization has control as to how the internet can be used or what can be sent over the network, standards and protocols are decided upon by various voluntary standards groups. Example: world wide web consortium (w3c: icann: internet corporation for assignment of names and numbers, url: uniform resource locator ( www. ) Audience use of internet: e-mail, browsers, downloading, plug-ins, search engines, news/weather, social networking, blogs.
