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    The Internet began in 1969 as the ARPANET network, created by the U.S. Defense Department. In 1986, the NSFNet was created by the National Science Foundation, which had greater capabilities than ARPANET. Later, ARPANET and NSFNet were combined with other private networks to form the modern Internet. The World Wide Web was introduced in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and made the Internet commercially available and popular to the public by allowing for multimedia content on websites.

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    The Internet began in 1969 as the ARPANET network, created by the U.S. Defense Department. In 1986, the NSFNet was created by the National Science Foundation, which had greater capabilities than ARPANET. Later, ARPANET and NSFNet were combined with other private networks to form the modern Internet. The World Wide Web was introduced in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and made the Internet commercially available and popular to the public by allowing for multimedia content on websites.

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    History of Internet

    The seeds of internet were planted in 1969, when U.S. Defence Department
    Sponsored a project named ARPANET (Advance Research Project Agency
    Network)
    In 1986 a another Federal Agency named NSF (National Science
    Foundation) created a new highly capacity advance Network which more
    capable from ARPANET.
    Later on two networks (ARPANET & NSF) and many other private networks
    were combined together to form modern INTERNET

    WWW (World Wide Web)


    From 1969s to early 1990s, the Internet was a communication and research
    tool used exclusively for academic and military purposes. This changed in
    1989 (www) was first introduced but commercially for people. www was
    proposed between 1989-1991 by Tim Berners Lee.

    Definition of (www) - The www is the set of programs, standards and


    protocols governing the way in which multimedia files (documents that
    contain a combination of text, photographs, graphics, video and audio) are
    created and displayed on the INTERNET

    Before www Internet was not popular but after introduction of www the
    internet popularity increased due to graphic nature.
    Difference between “WWW” and “Internet”

    Internet – is a collection of computers or networking devices connected


    together.

    WWW – is a large part of Internet is the ‘World Wide Web’ (WWW). This is
    made up of web sites that have one or more web pages.

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