'World Wide Web' ≠ 'Internet'
- The Internet is the global network of computers using TCP/IP
- POP, SMTP (Email)
- HTTP (Web)
- FTP
- more....
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Background: The Internet (Very Briefly)
- Some Definitions
- A jumble of networks connecting millions of computers across the world. (All use "TCP/IP" as their "Network Protocol").
- "The Oracle" (As-in: "Don't know? Go ask the Oracle")
- A place for people to directly communicate with each other without regard to physical location and/or time
- A Brief History
- 1960's, 1970's, 1980's: Defense, Research, Education...
- Late 80's - start of commercial use (CompuServe, BITNET, MCIMail)
- 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee thinks up the WWW and HTML.
- For Researchers to communicate (and cite) academic information
- 1992 - 50 web servers in the world
- 1993 - First point-and-click web browser (Mosaic)
- Late 1990's to Today
- Browser wars
- Explosion in use and traffic (doubling every hundred days...)
- HTML 2, 3, 4, XHTML
- CSS 1, 2, 2.1, 3
- TCP/IP
