The document discusses the history and development of the internet over the past 50 years, from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET to the commercialization of the world wide web in the 1990s. Key events included the creation of TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s allowing networks to interconnect, the establishment of NSFNET as the backbone of the internet in the 1980s, and the development of graphical web browsers in the early 1990s that popularized access to web pages and online information.
The document discusses the history and development of the internet over the past 50 years, from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET to the commercialization of the world wide web in the 1990s. Key events included the creation of TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s allowing networks to interconnect, the establishment of NSFNET as the backbone of the internet in the 1980s, and the development of graphical web browsers in the early 1990s that popularized access to web pages and online information.
The document discusses the history and development of the internet over the past 50 years, from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET to the commercialization of the world wide web in the 1990s. Key events included the creation of TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s allowing networks to interconnect, the establishment of NSFNET as the backbone of the internet in the 1980s, and the development of graphical web browsers in the early 1990s that popularized access to web pages and online information.