Learn crafty tips and tricks to make your time online smooth. Our directory is useful for internet newbies, as well as aspiring website builders. How To Build a Website. Name Your Website — Domain. Picking a Web Hosting Service. Content and User Experience. Searching the Web. Doing Research Online. The World of Wiki. Finding Videos Online. Getting Started. Sending an E-mail Message. Opening Attachments. At the same time, the number of Internet-connected computers grew from 2, in to more than 2 million in The NSF centers developed many tools for organizing, locating and navigating through information, including one of the first widely used Web server applications.
But perhaps the most spectacular success was Mosaic, the first freely available Web browser to allow Web pages to include both graphics and text, which was developed in by students and staff working at the NSF-supported National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
In less than 18 months, NCSA Mosaic became the Web "browser of choice" for more than a million users and set off an exponential growth in the number of Web servers as well as Web surfers. Mosaic was the progenitor of modern browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Privatization: Commercial firms noted the popularity and effectiveness of the growing Internet and built their own networks.
The proliferation of private suppliers led to an NSF solicitation in that outlined a new Internet architecture that largely remains in place today.
From that solicitation, NSF awarded contracts in for three network access points, to provide connection points between commercial networks, and one routing arbiter, to ensure an orderly exchange of traffic across the Internet. In addition, NSF signed a cooperative agreement to establish the next-generation very-high-performance Backbone Network Service.
The most visible, and most contentious, component of the Internet transition was the registration of domain names. The Department of Defense funded early registration efforts because most registrants were military users and awardees. Although the source code for the World Wide Web was released in , Wilson notes that it was not widely used, and in March there were only about 1 million people using it.
Some felt that ISPs would meet their networking needs, while others wanted to return to their regional networks. Wilson notes that other countries began to notice the value of connecting supercomputers and university research centers, which was a precursor to commercial ISPs offering services like email, document sharing, printer sharing and other network resources.
Have an idea for a technology we should feature? Please let us know in the comments! MENU Log in. We are incredibly grateful. Courtesy Arturo Contreras. A brief history of the internet From its start as a Cold War defensive measure to the cat video sharing phenomenon that steals our time today, the internet has come a long way baby!
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