Let us take a trip down memory lane to class number two of Web Media. It was nearing the middle of winter. The sky was dark with rain clouds and we were all miserable. Ok I made that last part up. I can’t actually remember what the day was like (or the weather for that matter) but I do remember one thing, learning about the history of the Internet. It was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as a way to share information on research, and went by the name of ARPANET. During it’s early beginnings it was only used for emails and FTP sites. As the years progressed the early developments evolved. During 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee proposed a prototype that allowed researchers in his organisation (CERN) the ability to use and share documents.
A bit of extra research shows that he did a more than just that. In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project that was to be known as the World Wide Web. This project would allow people to work together by “by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents.” Then on the 25 December, 1990, with the help of colleague and a young student staff, he “implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.” This guy created the language that makes up the Internet. How cool is that?
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