CCI 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Citizen Journalism, Instapundit, Cloud Computing
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How it all started: american military in 1969. Emergency back up communication method for the war: text only, mostly military, universities, and researchers, world wide web (www) created in 1989, internet vs www. Www is only what you do through a browser. Www is a branch of the internet. Video games, email, etc on internet not www: critical mass of users by 1995 but needed isp. The gutenberg of our age: tim berners-lee- the world is at your ngertips on any computer platform. Invented www in 1989, an internet based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. No patents- just gave it to the world. His speci cations of url"s, http, and html were re ned as web technology spread. Terms to know: url- uniform resource locator (www. google. com) Thursday, march 23, 2017: http- hypertext transfer protocol. How computers and servers nd each other and share info: html- hypertext markup language.