'Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything'

He needed some means

he set to work to resolve the problems associated with diverse communities of scientists sharing data between themselves

By 1989, the Internet was well established

he World Wide Web came into being.

To view retrieved documents he wrote a browser

and to store and transmit them, the first web server.

distribute web server and browser software on the Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee submitted a paper to CERN's board for evaluation, 'Information Management: A Proposal', wherein he detailed and encouraged the adoption of hypertext as the means to manage and collate the vast sum of information

The browser

tied to a specific make of computer,

Soon browsers for different platforms started appearing,

Mosaic took off in popularity to such an extent that it made front page of the New York Times' technical section in late 1993,

CompuServe, AOL and Prodigy begin offering dial-up internet access

Andreessen

Jim Clark

Silicon Graphics Inc.)

Mosaic Communications Corporation

had to start from scratch

linking computers via telephone lines

university and research sites would be connected

to build Interface Message Processors

smaller computers

The '70s saw the emergence of the first networks

to handle the interfacing between their hosts and the Network

ARPANET in 1969

File Transfer Protocol

o facilitate communications

Network Control Protocol (NCP)

a user-transparent mechanism for sharing files between host computers

the first Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) is implemented

Users at various sites could log on to the Network and request data from a number of host computers

1972 Vinton Cerf is called to the chairmanship

Inter-Networking Group (INWG)

to develop standards for the ARPANET

NCP communications system

TCP (Transmission-Control Protocol)

common language

They conceived of a protocol that could be adopted by all gateway computers and hosts alike

In this way different networks could be linked together to form a network of networks

By the late '70s the final protocol was developed - TCP/IP (Internet Protocol) - which would become the standard for internet communications.

Bob Metcalfe's: Ethernet

packet switching networks

a dissertation on the ARPANET

marketed his invention as Ethernet

the '80s witnessed the explosion of Local Area Networks (LANs)

the ability to communicate

the Internet has now blossomed into a vehicle of expression

and research for the common person with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new pages being added to the World Wide Web every day

Vannevar Bush

a machine called a 'memex' might enhance human memory by the storage

1945 essay, 'As We May Think'

ar less critical

Bush's contribution

Bush galvanised research into technology as the key determinant in winning the Second World War

A few years after the war the National Science Foundation (NSF) was setup

in 1958

the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created

employed a psychologist by the name of Joseph Licklider

in 1962

the development of the modern PC

built upon Bush's contributions

esponsible for penning 'Man Computer Symbiosis'

computer networking

and companies

he initiated research contracts with leading computer institutions

ay down the foundations of the first networked computing group.

he setup a research laboratory

Douglas Engelbart

to examine the human interface and storage and retrieval systems

NLS (oNLine System

ARPA funding

hypertext

the developer of the first mouse or pointing device

the hardware giants were consolidating their computing initiatives

conceiving the use of packets, small chunks of a message which could be reconstituted at destination, upon which current internet transmission and reception is based

Paul Baran

the idea of distributed networks comprising numerous interconnected nodes