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Kurtziza wrote:
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well i think the internet was invented in.........
Switzerland..... i think by CERN
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http://www.davesite.com/webstation...story.shtml
You're wrong.
ummm.....
4 computers is just a small network... nothing near internet
oh nvm! the didnt make "internet" they made the "world wide web"
FROM CERN WEBSITE:
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In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (that you are currently using!). The Web, as it is affectionately called, was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world.
The basic idea of WWW was to merge the technologies of personal computers, computer networking and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system.
Hypertext is text with links to further information, on the model of references in a scientific paper or cross-references in a dictionary. With electronic documents, these cross-references can be followed by a mouse-click, and with the World-Wide Web, they can be anywhere in the world. There is no need to know where the information is stored, and no need to know any detail on how it is formatted or organized.
"Wandering from one document (webpage) to another" is called browsing. Some people do this just for fun, following links just to see what's there. This is usually called "surfing the Web".
Of course, behind this apparent simplicity there is a set of ingenious design concepts, protocols and conventions.
Nowadays, the WWW has expanded from its original scientific environment and has millions of academic and commercial users.
Edited, Fri Oct 14 01:05:24 2005 by Kurtziza Edited, Fri Oct 14 01:05:58 2005 by Kurtziza