Internet / World Wide Web

 Bella Franjione


Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn are the two “fathers” of the internet, and they are credited with the invention of it in 1973. They are the ones who laid the groundwork by designing transmission control protocol (TCP) and internet protocol (IP) that would allow data to flow between computers. The internet was really created when Kahn had a problem with making sure that computers, no matter the manufacturer, could communicate with each other. The internet was originally used in the Cold War for the United States to use as a “weapon” (Bidwell). Scientists and researchers would use the internet to share data and information with each other. Today, the internet is used for just about anything a person could want. We use the internet to entertain ourselves, research new ideas, or find out information that we want to know. The internet can do pretty much anything for us today. 


Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1989. The web was originally made for scientists at different universities or around the world to communicate with one another. Berners-Lee worked with the engineer, Robert Cailliau, to create a proposal that would outline principal concepts and terms that would be used behind their so-called “Web.” Tim Berners-Lee had the first web browser up to illustrate his ideas by the end of 1990. The world wide web is used today to connect people by allowing them to share anything that they would want to through social networks, blogs, video sharing, and other forms as well. 


The internet and world wide web work together. The world wide web includes the individual web pages that you see when you are online on your device. The internet includes the web, as the internet could be described as the network that connects different computers with each other. The internet is very broad and it includes the web. For example, when someone sends emails or files to another computer, this would be considered the internet. Tim Berners-Lee invented the first website in 1989 while he was working at CERN. The first website is still up, and this is the URL: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html .
















Works Cited


Nstmf, Allie Bidwell For. “Meet the Man Who Created the Internet.” National Science and Technology Medals Foundation, 30 July 2020, nationalmedals.org/stories/meet-vint-cerf/.  

History.com Editors. “The Invention of the Internet.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 30 July 2010, www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet. 

“A Short History of the Web.” CERN, home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web.  

“The World Wide Web: The Invention That Connected the World - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, artsandculture.google.com/theme/the-world-wide-web-the-invention-that-connected-the-world/eAJS4WcKh7UBIQ?hl=en. 

“What's the Difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? - Cbbc Newsround.” BBC News, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47523993. 

“Cern Accelerating Science.” CERN, home.cern/science/computing/birth-web. 

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