Right, i have a teaser for you all.
Most days, most of us log into web sites.
Most of those sites begin with............www.
Can anyone tell me anything about the history of....www.
It might prove a bit shocking.
Will tell answer later.
Pressie for who ever comes up with answer.

world wide web......

Nope

Chaddy your up late tonight. Cant sleep.

Not the modern day version , the old history of www.

You asked for it sandy...LMAO here goes....

History of the World Wide Web

This presents the history of the World Wide Web as well as the history of several ideas and underlying technologies from which the World Wide Web emerged. The history is presented in a sequential format, while events and technologies of particular significance have been discussed in individual sections. As the World Wide Web, in the most basic sense, is a networked hypertext information delivery mechanism, particular attention is given to the above mentioned fundamental technologies of hypertext and networking. More recently, with the advent of technologies such as Java, the web has gone through another transformation, which among other things, has provided the ability to deliver applications and distributed objects across the Internet. A section on evolution of Java has therefore been included to provide historical context for this relatively new technology.
It all began a long long time ago. 1858 actually...
1858 The Atlantic cable was installed across the ocean with the idea of connecting the communication systems in US and Europe. While this was a great idea, the 1858 implementation of it was only operational for a few days. The implementation was attempted again in 1866, and this time with great success. The original Atlantic cable laid in 1866 remained operational for almost 100 years.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. As a response to the Soviet research efforts, president Dwight D. Eisenhower instructed the Department of Defense to establish the Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA. The agency started with great success and launched the first American satellite within 18 months of the agency's conception. Several years later, ARPA was also given the task of developing a reliable communications network, specifically for use by computers. The primary motivation for this was to have a network of decentralized military computers connected in such way that in the case of destruction of one or several nodes in a potential war, the network would still survive with communication lines between remaining nodes.
In 1962 Dr. J.C.R. Licklider was given the task of leading ARPA's research efforts in improving the use of computer technology in the military. It was due to Dr. Licklider's influence that ARPA's primary research efforts moved from the private sector to the universities around the US. His work paved the way for the creation of ARPANET.
1962
Paul Baran of RAND Corporation publishes the paper "On Distributed Communications Networks" which introduces Packet-switching (PS) networks; no single outage point.
1965
ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers" -- TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and Q-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) are directly linked (without packet switches).

1967
At the ACM Symposium on Operating Principles, a plan was presented for a packet-switching network. Also, the first design paper on ARPANET was published by Lawrence G. Roberts.

1968 PS-network was presented to the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA It is argued that the first packet-switching network was operational and in-place at the National Physical Laboratories in the UK. Parallel efforts in France also resulted in an early packet-switching network at Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques in 1968-1970.

1969 First ARPANET node was established at UCLA's Network Measurements Center. Subsequent nodes were established at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and UCSB (UC Santa Barbara).
Information Message Processors (IMP) was developed by Bolt Beranek on a Honeywell DDP 516. The system devlivered messages between the 4 node network above.
First RFC (Request For Comments), "Host Software", was submitted by Steve Crocker.

1970
Norman Abrahamson develops ALOHAnet at University of Hawaii. ALOHAnet provided the background for the work which later became ethernet.
ARPANET hosts start using Network Control Protocol (NCP). This protocol was used until 1982 at which time it was replaced with TCP/IP.

1971
ARPANET had grown to 15 nodes which included 26 nodes: UCLA, SRI, UCSB, University of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIUC, CWRU, CMU, and NASA(Ames).

1972
RFC 318: Telnet
Ray Tomlinson writes e-mail program to operate across networks
· Inter-Networking Working Group (INWG), headed by Vinton Cerf, is established and given the task of investigating common protocols.
Public demonstration of the ARPANET by Bob Kahn of BBN. The demonstration consisted of a "packet switch", and a TIP (Terminal Interface Processor) in the basement of the Washington Hilton Hotel. The public could use the TIP to run distributed applications across the US. According to Vinton Cerf, the demonstration was a "roaring success".

1973
ARPANET goes international:
University College of London -- UK
Royal Radar Establishment --Norway
First published outline for the idea of Ethernet: Bob Metcalfe's Harvard PhD Thesis.
RFC 454: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

1974
The design of TCP was given in "A Protocol for Packet Network Internetworking" by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn.

1976
UUCP (Unix to Unix Copy Program) is developed at AT&T Bell Labs and distributed with UNIX the following year.

1977
RFC 733: Mail specification
THEORYNET, a UUCP based email system with over 100 users is established at University of Wisconsin.
First demonstration of ARPANET/Packet Radio

1979
Computer scientists from University of Wisconsin, NSF, DARPA, and other universities meet to establish Computer Science network.
Tom Truscott and Steve Bellovin implement USENET.
Only between UNC and Duke
All groups originally under net.
Internet Configuration Board is created by ARPA.
PRNET (Packet Radio Network) is established.

1981
BITNET (Because It's Time NETwork) established.
CSNET (Computer Science NETwork) established.
Based on funding from NSF
Stated goal of providing network access to universities without ARPANET access

1982
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) is selected as the protocol suite for ARPANET.
TCP/IP selected by DoD as standard
RFC 827: External Gateway Protocol

1983
Name server developed at University of Wisconsin.
Gateway between CSNET and ARPANET is established.
ARPANET is split into ARPANET and MILNET.
UNIX machines with built-in TCP/IP gain in popularity.
Internet Activities Board (IAB) replaces ICCB.
Tom Jennings develops FidoNet.

1984
Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced.
Over 1000 hosts
Japan Unix Network operational

1986
NSFNET created.
Originially composed of 5 super-computer centers connected with 56Kbps lines.
Other universities join in.
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) created.
Mail Exchanger (MX) records developed by Craig Partridge allow non-IP network hosts to have domain addresses.

1987
NSF and Merit Network, Inc. agree to manage the NSFNET backbone.
Over 10,000 Internet hosts

1988
November 1- Internet worm affects 10% of hosts
DoD adopts OSI.
· NSFNET backbone is upgraded to T1 (1.544Mbps)
Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Norway, Sweden are on NSFNET.

1989
Over 100,000 hosts
CSNET merges into BITNET to form Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN).
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) created
Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, UK on NSFNET

1990
NSFNET replaces ARPANET
Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan at McGill release Archie
Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Greece, India, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland on NSFNET

1991
Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), is invented by Brewster Kahle
Gopher released by Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill from the University of Minnesota
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN releases World-Wide Web (WWW)
NSFNET backbone upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps)
NSFNET traffic passes 1 trillion bytes/month and 10 billion packets/month
Croatia, Czech Repulic, Hong Kong, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Tunisia on NSFNET

1992
Internet Society (ISOC) is formed
Over 1,000,000 hosts
Veronica, a gopherspace search tool, is released by University of Nevada
Cameroon, Cyprus, Ecuador, Estonia, Kuwait, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Venezuela on NSFNET

1993
InterNIC created by NSF
US National Information Infrastructure Act
WWW proliferates at a 341,634% annual growth rate of service traffic. Gopher's growth is 997%.
Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Egypt, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Peru, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukrayne, UAE, Virgin Islands on NSFNET

1994
NSFNET traffic passes 10 trillion bytes/month
Percent packets and bytes in order:
FTP
WWW
telnet
Algeria, Armenia, Bermuda, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, French Polynesia, Jamaica, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macau, Morocco, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Uruguay, Uzbekistan on NSFNET

1995
NSFNET reverts back to a research network. Main US backbone traffic now routed through interconnected network providers
WWW surpasses ftp-data in March as the service with greatest traffic on NSFNet based on packet count, and in April based on byte count
Traditional online dial-up systems (Compuserve, American Online, Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access
Registration of domain names is no longer free. Beginning 14 September, a $50 annual fee has been imposed, which up until now was subsidized by NSF. NSF continues to pay for edu registration, and on an interim basis for gov
Technologies of the Year: WWW, Search engines
Emerging Technologies: Mobile code (JAVA, JAVAscript), Virtual environments (VRML), Collaborative tools
The growth of the Internet today has exploded into the latest craze. It is the newest wave of communication through electronic mail, file transfer, telnet access, transaction applications, and much much more. The most popular part of the Internet is the World Wide Web, where anyone can access hypertext pages with the click of a button. The popularity of the Internet has launched many social and ethical issues. Recently, the Internet has been critizied for its uncensored information, but has been praised for its educational value. Although the Internet appears to be very convenient to its users, there are many technical issues surrounding this vast network of computers. Technical issues range from network protocols, which is used to communicate information, to display or markup languages, which is used for displaying information.



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Fudge is such a sweetie !

Jes*s ppp, thats what i get for asking a question like that, What are ye trying to do te me.Lol, lol, do i have te read all those big words. Right i've got me coffee and i've had a read, its all i suppose very true, but i wasn't going down the sensible road,dont ye know by now i'm an idiot. could ye post it again and explain it a bit better

how long did that take?? I had to go and make a cup of tea!!

Hey biddy welcome home. Did you have a good weekend. It must have been good to catch up. How is your friend, is he coping ok. How was Cornwall. were the waves big like i said. (shiver, They frighten the life out of me but i could stand and watch for hours)

it was lovely apart from teh weatehr. our old friend is coping much better now, he is doing the house out to sell and wants to move nearer his daughter in littlehampton. we had pasties, cream tea with jam and cream. had a short walk near the beach and it was windy with big waves but also rainy too! it was very ncie though. as i said on another post it took about 6 hours to get home!! so tired we just watned bath and bed after picking up puss. she was pleased as always to see her.

Gordon Bennett (whoever he was) ppp, you must have had fun researching that lot!!

Sandrina, so what is the old history of www?

Bet ppp puts a post on here about Gordon Bennett now! He was a real person wasn't he?

*cackles madly and jumps up & down on broomstick* better stop though I might get too excited....PMSLMAO

Gordon Bennett !
It is commonly believed that this expression has its origins in the popularity of James Gordon-Bennett, Jr..

His father, born in Scotland in 1795, emigrated to the US to become a journalist and subsequently founded the 'New York Herald' in 1835. The many innovations he established within newspaper publishing, including European correspondents, illustrated news articles, the joint founding of The Associated Press (1848) and the first major use of the telegraph for news, led to a successful news empire which amassed considerable wealth.

It was his son, born in 1841 and known as Gordon-Bennett, who really captured the attention of the US and European populace. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he took every opportunity to live life as a playboy; his wild lifestyle and extravagant spending gained him notoriety in high society. On one occasion, at a New Year's party (1877) being held by his fiancee's father, he got so stupifyingly drunk as to mistake the fireplace for a toilet and proceeded to urinate in front of his prospective in-laws and their guests. Other tales include the occasion when, annoyed by the bulky roll of money in his back pocket, he burnt the lot in an impetuous fit. There are many more tales of his outrageous and extravagant behaviour, however not all cast him in a bad light, such as the numerous times he would donate large sums of money to charities.

He took over the management of the Herald in 1867, and proceeded to invest funds in newsworthy ventures. His funding included the expedition by Stanley to Africa, in search of Dr. David Livingstone, and an ill fated attempt to explore the North Pole and Arctic region by G.W. De Long in the years between 1879 and 1881. The 'Jeanette' expedition, as the Arctic trip was known, failed miserably and led to the subsequent death, via starvation, of De Long and 19 fellow crew members. There are several islands in Siberia that bear Bennett's name.

Gordon-Bennett was particularly partial to sports, being credited with introducing polo to the United States, his interests included yachting, in which he established the James Gordon-Bennett Cup for international races. Trophies were similarly given for balloon and aeroplane racing, of which the Gordon-Bennett balloon race still exists. As further testament to his involvement in the various racing arenas, it was in 1904 that the Gordon-Bennett Motor Car Road Racing Trials were first run on the Isle of Man, which was the precursor to the world famous TT races, currently still held there.

From 1877 he lived in Europe, mainly on his 301 foot yacht, the Lysistrata, from where he administered the running of the New York Herald. He died in France in May 1918, aged 78.

The use of James Gordon-Bennett's name as an expletive possibly bears relation to his outrageous lifestyle and involvement in newsworthy stunts. Imagine opening your daily newspaper and reading yet another news item telling you of his latest antics, and as you begin to express incredulity with a "God Almighty", you restrain your publically unacceptable language and instead say..... GORDON-BENNETT!

PMSL - thanks ppp, my education takes another leap forward!

for goodness sake dont ask PPP anymore questions like that!!!!

well.... i often wondered who Larry was as over here we say "happy as Larry"...mmmnnnn i will ask PPP...no I wont ..well maybe I will.....going to have a think about this before I ask PPP...

Oh!! God help me i conked out on the couch, after clearing up after dinner. Is that how you spell couch it dosn't look right. my mouths hanging open i cant stop yawning i'm bluttered. I..... " cant say came" I arrived at the forum, saw all this and cant stop laughing. I worked my little cotton socks of today and managed to join you fourmlings of and on. Now you want an answer.

Now Chaddy has brought up Larry. Wheres the key to 3p's shed. PPP your a gem, but how do i give an answer after your educated answers. Mine will look Sh*t OOps,you see so tired i'm using bad words.

OK. some of us read the bible, some dont. Many years ago, when all the scrolls and writings of all the saints were found, they were mostly in Hebrew. But the bible was translated so we could understand it. Now we are all fimilar with the book of revelations, The last book in the bible, telling us of the predictions of the end of the world, and telling us of the devil, and warning us of his many guises,and his NUMBER. Well in the original (if you like ) bible the number of the beast is WWW. Hebrew used letters for numbers, so in the original writings, the number was WWW.666. So if we were reading the bible today in its true form, we would read the number of the beast is www.

Thats it. I always new the internet was evill

Thats why it and computers get me so mad when they dont do what ya tell um.

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Originally posted by Mad Rat:


Thats it. I always new the internet was evill

Thats why it and computers get me so mad when they dont do what ya tell um.

Now you've got me in a fit of the giggles again.

omg, sounds like you had a bad experience. Hope it wasn't to nasty.