Internet Evolution

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Internet Evolution

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Muhammad Umer Javed

Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected networks and computers.

o Internet could not have existed with out the two major inventions of 19th century.

o Electricity ando Telegraph system

HISTORY OF INTERNET

HOW DID THE INTERNET COME TO BE?

o It started as a research project to experiment with connecting computers together with packet switched networks.

o It was developed with funding and leadership of the US Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

Evolution of the internet

ARPANET

o ARPANET was the world’s first operational network, and the predecessor of the globel internet

Arpaneto Arpanet was developed by the U.S Department of

Defense.o One theory was that it was developed to survive the

nuclear attack. That theory is often disputed by scientists.

The World Wide Web

WWW.

wwwo The original internet provided screens full of text.o Great for sharing info and accessing the library

of congress.o Text was all one font and size.o Boring

Graphical user interface (guis)

o GUIs added some color and layout,

o but still were not very interesting

The world wide web save the internet

o Hyperlinks were invented.

o www.stmsaints.com

o The mouse were invented to click on hyperlinks.

o The URL (Uniform Source Locater) was invented. This allowed sites to be named.

Creation of the world wide web.

o Tim Berners Lee brought all of this together to form the world wide web in 1990.

Mosaic : the first web browser

o Very slow.

o Did not handle loading pictures very well.

o Modems were very slow.

The explosion of the Internet

1994 – a big year for the www

o The Berners Lee develops the world wide web consortium to develop the standards for the web.

1994 – a big year for the www

o The Berners Lee develops the world wide web consortium to develop the standards for the web.

o Netscape is founded.

1994-2000o The internet exploded during this

period.

o The first commercial site was Amazon.com.

o In 1994 the World Wide Web grew by an astounding 2300 percent.

o Amazon saw that online shopping was the wave of the future.

o The rest is history.

Browser Wars

o Netscape was the standard until 1988.

o It folded and was taken over by AOL.

o Microsoft Internet Explorer snagged 96 % of the Browser market.

o IE has only recently been challenged by excellent Mozilla browser.

Today's Environment

The Internet

Information Tool

Public Communications Utility

Free Market

Growth

Future Of the internet

Internet Grows Exponentially

oThe Internet will drive a process of social change

o alter the basis of economic wealtho Virtual-reality worlds will be the new instant

messenger.o Humans will be connected to computer

networks.

o Smart technology will be incorporated into fabrics, so you can e-mail using your shoe or coat sleeve.

o Video wristwatches will allow you to see and talk to anyone, anywhere.

o Robots will be able to recognize your thoughts and respond to your commands.

o Most robots will be invisible, and they will outnumber humans.

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