The Internet And The World Wide Web

	Table Of Contents The Internet The World Wide Web About Tim Berners-Lee Relationship Between Internet And World Wide Web Useful Links
	The Internet The Internet is the largest computer network in the world - "a network of networks". The Internet consists of thousands of interconnected networks of computers that allow all sorts of computers to talk to one another. The beginnings of the Internet can be traced back over 20 years ago to an experimental network belonginng to the U.S.Department called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) that was designed to survive a nuclear attack and still function. During the research, two protocols were developed: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). You can do almost anything with the Internet, as long as it concerns information. It has burst into unimaginable growth. No one in Singapore would have thought 10 years ago that such a technology would be available here that connects the almost entire world in a single click of a button.
	The World Wide Web In 1989, a significant event took place in making the Net easier to use. Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), previous known as Centre European pour la Recherche Nucleaire, proposed a new protocol for information distribution. This protocol, which became the World Wide Web (WWW or W3) in 1991, was based on HyperText Markup Language (HTML) - a system of embedding links in text to link to other text, which you have been using every time you selected a text link while reading on web sites. This language is sent between computers using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP://www…), this allows the language to be decoded and seen in much the same way by users of different systems and browsers.
Tim Berners-Lee	About Tim Berners-Lee A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is now with the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organisations with the mission to realise the full potential of the Web. With a background of system design in real-time communications, and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. He wrote the first web browser (called WorldWideWeb) and server in 1990.
	Relationship Between Internet & WWW The Internet is a gold mine of world wide information. The World Wide Web is a multi-media concept for navigating the Internet, often through a point-and-click interface. It contains words, pictures, sounds, movies, 3D pictures and special hotlinks that is accessed through a clinet-application called a Browser - Internet Explorer. The information are not in just one place. Instead they are stored at different computers around the world. The inter-dependency between the Internet and the World Wide Web cannot be over-emphazised.
	Useful Links History On Internet & WWW- lots of Information Net Time Line- revolution of Internet & WWW Online Dictionary For Computer- understand of computer terms The World Wide Web: Looking Back On The Development of The WWW. Written by Tim Berners-Lee's on May 1998 The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future. Another article written by Tim Berners-Lee on August 1996