Internet/World Wide Web - Anya FMX 101-11

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World Wide Web versus the Internet


    The internet is a boundless network of connects all computers globally, created so that people from all over the world can communicate with each other via internet connection. There is no one person who can be ultimately credited to creating the internet, however in 1961, a number of scientists and engineers collectively shared research to create the ARPANET. The ARPANET is one of the earliest computer networks, created by  Leonard Kleinroc (Computer Hope). Throughout the early years, many other inventors’ "creations paved the way for the web as we know it today" (ScienceandMediaMuseum). Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, two computer scientists invented the "Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet" (Britannica). The internets sole purpose in the United States. over 50 years ago, was to act as a government weapon in the Cold War, as well as a means of scientists and researchers sharing and communicating information and data with each other (History.com). Today, the internet is used for an endless amount of things, communication, research, leisure, fun, and even more.


    The World Wide Web, or web, can be described as "the pages you see when you're at a device and you're online" (BBC UK), or basically the a way to access informations through means of the internet. In 1991, Swiss computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee, invented the World Wide Web,  a web of information that could be gathered from the internet. The Web could be used to navigate the internet using "scrollbars and clickable links", or for "commercial purposes" (History.com). The World Wide Web today can be used for those things, and also more popular social networking sites such as Facebook, in order to stay connected!


    The Internet and the World Wide Web are completely different things, but work side by side in order to complete the efficiency of each other. On August 6, 1991, the first website CERN was created.  This website contained information about the World Wide Web Project. British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee created this website, "launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN" (NPR). This website allowed people to understand how "to create web pages and learn about hypertext (coded words or phrases that link to content)" (NPR). http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.


Sources

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47523993. 

 https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/short-history-internet. 

https://www.computerhope.com/history/network.htm. 

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/flashback-this-is-what-the-first-website-ever-looked-like-2011-6. 


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