Do you Know the History of the Web?
Shawn Fanning's music-sharing site Napster was the first peer-to-peer file sharing system, introduced in 1999. In 2001, at its peak, the service had more than 25 million users. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the video service's very first video on April 23, 2005. The video at the San Diego Zoo has since been watched more than 10 million times. By 1996, the coffee pot cam had one million hits. The coffee pot cam has, though, since been retired. Known as the very first webcam -- set up in the early '90s in the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England -- it gave people a way of checking if the coffee pot was full or empty before going for a refill. By the summer of 2014, how many people were using the Internet around the world? Internet. Another 21 percent knew it had something to do with computers, but not much more than that. See how much you know about the history of the Web. This article has been gen erated by GSA Content Generato r DEMO!
URL," which is the unique identifier for things on the Web, is an acronym for "Uniform Resource Locator." It's a Web address." What did Scott invent? HTTP, which is the acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is, essentially, a set of rules used to send information from your Web browser to the website you're going to. Because it encrypts information, Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, HTTPS, is the secure version. Hypertext Markup Language, known as HTML, is the formatting language -- markup -- used to make Web pages. Together, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP suite of communication protocols -- which is the language computers use to talk to each other among networks. It was created by Marc Andreessen and a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and introduced in March 1993. Mosaic later became Netscape Navigator. As he explained, it was created as a way to separate an advertiser's brand from a user's page content. Back on May 3, 1978, Gary Thuerk sent a single mass email to advertise Digital Equipment Corporation's new T-series of VAX systems, instead of the traditional way of sending one at a time, making it the first email spam.
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Information is sent in plain text, which is why submitting sensitive information such as your credit card number can be risky. And that's why he's called the father of email. Before the Internet even existed, back in the days of Internet precursor ARPANET in 1971, computer programmer Ray Tomlinson made it possible for us to email each other. In the March 2007 parliamentary election, Estonia became the first country to allow Internet voting. On March 21, 2006, Twitter co-founder Jack (@jack) Dorsey tweeted, "just setting up my twttr." In fact, many first tweets were that, as back then Twttr, as it was called, automatically tweeted "just setting up my twttr" from all new accounts. Archie, as the first was called, along with WAIS and Gopher search engines which followed in 1991 all predate the World Wide Web. In this message from 1982, Scott Fahlman suggests the very first emoticon for messages that should be read as humorous; the smiley. What was the first domain name ever registered? In November 1998 Robert Morris, a Cornell University computer science grad student, unleashed what is considered the first Internet "worm" -- and subsequently became the first person to be tried and convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Known as the Morris worm, video shorts the malware affected one-tenth of all computers connected to the Internet at that time.
The "dot-com" boom refers to the period of time at the end of the 1990s when there was a speculative and historic investment bubble around Internet companies. At this time, search engines indexed information on the Internet and served it up kind of like a directory listing of page titles. Don't like banner ads? The Trojan Room coffee pot webcam watched the coffee pot in, you guessed it, the Trojan Room. And, perhaps not surprisingly, the coffee pot eventually sold for more than $4000 -- online, of course. It was primitive: a 129×129 pixel grayscale image of the coffee pot, at one frame per second. Joe McCambley was the first to run one online. What website did it run on? These webcams were all among the first, all introduced in the 1990s and each still working today: Since it went online in 1994, the Amazing Fishcam has been streaming the activity in the fishtank at what, at first, was yet-unknown Netscape offices. Back in 1995 when it was still called AuctionWeb, a man who collected broken laser pointers bought a broken laser pointer for $14.83.
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