Internet vs. The Web

According to Merriam-Webster Internet is the electronic communications of network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world. Internet was created by a group of different pioneers that included scientists, programmers and engineers. J.C.R Licklider brough attention to the idea of Intergalactic Network of computers. Internet started in the 1960’s as a way for government researchers to share information. In today’s world internet is utilized by all people. The internet is used today as a form of entertainment, communication, and information. 

The world wide web was created by British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. He created it while working at CERN in 1989. The scientist Berners-Lee worked with several other scientists from other universities and national laboratories in their home countries. This is because CERN is not an isolated laboratory it is simply just the center of the community. Berners-Lee’s first proposal for the WWW was March 1989. For the second proposal in May 1990 with the Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailiau. 

The web was created to “meet the demands for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world” (CERN group). The idea was mainly to merge the evolving technologies of computers, data networks and hyper test and making them the easy-to-use global information system. The worldwide web opened the internet up to everyone. It allows people to share their work and thoughts through social networking sites, blogs, videos, etc. 

Internet and the Web are interconnected as they help support each other. The internet is the network of connected computers that the web works on. It is also what emails and files travel across. The web is the series of pages that you see on your device when you are online. They work together to give access to everyone, not just scientists.

The first website was established on August 6, 1991. The website was made by Tim Berners-Lee and it explained what the world wide web project was and how it worked. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The web address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

Hedy LaMarr is known as the “The Incredible Mind Behind Secure Wifi and Bluetooth” (Field). In 1941, LaMarr filed frequency-hopping technology which was the forerunner to secure wifi and Bluetooth. She filed her patent with co-investor George Antheil with the intent to protect their radio communication to hop from one frequency to another. The downside for Mrs. LaMarr is that she never touched a cent from her multi-billion-dollar industry even though her frequency-hopping patent greatly contributed to today’s technology. 

In 1994, Jaap Haartsen laid the foundation for wireless system known as Bluetooth. The name Bluetooth was borrowed from the 10-century, second King of Denmark, King Harald Bluetooth. Bluetooth was named after him because he worked to unite Scandinavia just like we intended to unite PC. The logo is a combination of initials H and B written in Scandinavian runes. 

Wifi is a wireless networking technology that allows devices communicate over a wireless signal. The Father of Wi-Fi is Vic Hayes because he chaired the IEEE committee that created the 802.11 standards in 1997. The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN. The name wifi was created by a marketing firm because of the wireless industry was looking for a user-friendly name. 

 

 

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