WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY
THE INTERNET
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Detailed explanation-1: -January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP).
Detailed explanation-2: -1990. ARPANET formally shuts down. In twenty years, ‘the net’ has grown from 4 to over 300, 000 hosts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The internet is the networking infrastructure that connects devices together, while the World Wide Web is a way of accessing information through the medium of the internet. Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of a ‘web of information’ in 1989. It relied on ‘hyperlinks’ to connect documents together.
Detailed explanation-4: -But when was the first Internet started? It is believed that on 6 August 1991, when the World Wide Web opened to the public.