The Internet is an important part of our daily lives. With the internet, you can access almost any piece of information you might need. It’s a global network of all of the world’s computers, other electronical devices and software’s. By connecting to the internet, you are “going online.” Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are the men who invented the internet. But first, TCP/IP (Transmition Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) was developed in the 1970s and was adopted by ARPANET in 1983 and from there researchers came together and came up with the “network of networks” that is now the Internet. Its primary form of use was to communicate and share data between scientists and researchers and today the internet part of our everyday routine. A few years later as the online world continued to grow, Tim Berners-Lee, another computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The World Wide Web was first created for people to use to interact on the internet and now is most commonly known for accessing data online through websites and hyperlinks and that was its basic idea.
The Internet and World Wide Web are not the same. They serve 2 different purposes but work together. The internet is the network of all connected computers that the web works on, like what gets sent around. The web helps people communicate and share information and the internet is the connection in computers for data to be transmitted. People often think they are the same, but that’s not the case.
The first website was launched on August 6, 1991 by the same man who created the Web, Tim Berners-Lee. He published the website while working at CERN. The site was about his World Wide Web project and how to use it since it was fairly new to everyone so many didn’t know how to use it. He didn’t try to get a profit from creating the website, he wanted it to be open and free for everyone to use and for it to expand quicker. The sites URL was http://info.cern.ch and you can still access it today.
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web
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