SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE WEB

HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

The Internet was originally created in the 1960's as a government-sponsored computer network for the United States defense industry. Over the years, as the Internet became a more powerful and sophisticated way to share information, universities and corporations began using it.

The Internet is made up of five strands or resources:

1. Gopher

2. FTP

3. Telnet

4. USENET news grous & Electronic Mail

5. World Wide Web

Some of these Internet strands, like Gopher, FTP, and Telnet were popular in the early years, but were not always easy to use. They were also limited in the kinds of information that they could move from computer to computer. Gopher, FTP, and Telnet were limited to text files or word files.

Files containing graphics, images, pictures, sound, or video could not be shared until the Web was invented.

These days, electronic mail and the Web are the most popular Internet strands.

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