Knowledge To Be Shared

While the Internet was born on October 29, 1969 when computers at Stanford and UCLA were linked into a single network, forming the ARPANET. From these humble beginnings the Internet developed a wide range of protocol and services, from file transfer to email. However, the world wide web and the consumer understanding of the Internet didn’t arrive until the implementation of the world wide web, the ability of documents on the Internet to be linked via hypertext links.

The father of the world wide web is Tim Berners-Lee, and he posted the first server, web pages, and web browser publicly available to the world on August 6, 1991. The web grew in fits and starts over the next two years but took off dramatically with the introduction of the graphical Mosaic web browser introduced in 1993.

The web grew slowly in 1993, but it had its early adopters, including MTV, one of the first major brands on the Internet and the “Trojan room coffee pot,” which was the Internet’s first webcam.

For all intents and purposes, the birth of the Internet as a media destination was in 1994, where the web saw significant growth and an associated expansion of content into rich media. Notably, “Cool Site of The Day” launched in 1994, a concept that is now integral in sites like Digg, Reddit, Fark, and even Delicious. The first major search engine also launched in 1994—Lycos. Also, the first web shopping mall launched in 1994, the Internet Shopping Network. Fan sites also started to pop up, including The Simpsons Archive. Yahoo also launched in 1994 as “Jerry’s guide to the world wide web.” And, chat became integrated with the web in 1994 with Bianca’s Smut Shack, a free speech hub. Online banking also launched in 1994 with First Virtual.

Every year since 1994 the web has grown in terms of both size and its ability to deliver content. Berners-Lee’s initial idea of linking text as a standard has now evolved to where video delivery is being planned as part of the language of the Internet (HTML), making Flash plugins unnecessary. For the future, it is clear that if there is a new way to present or consume content, it will be connected to the Internet in some form or fashion.

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