5 Web Milestones

For this task I had to consult the Internet Timeline at Hobbes' Internet Timeline by Robert H Zakon and pick 5 milestones relevant to the World Wide Web, screen design and multimedia design.


1) 1982 -
DCA and ARPA establish the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET. (:vgc:)

This leads to one of the first definitions of an "internet" as a connected set of networks, specifically those using TCP/IP, and "Internet" as connected TCP/IP internets.

DoD declares TCP/IP suite to be standard for DoD (:vgc:)

2) 1983 -
Name server developed at Univ of Wisconsin, no longer requiring users to know the exact path to other systems

3) 1991 -
World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer (:pb1:). First Web server is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov 1990 and later renamed info.cern.ch

4 ) 1994 -
The first banner ads appear on hotwired.com in October. They were for Zima (a beverage) and AT&T

5) 1995 -
Emerging Technologies: Mobile code (JAVA, JAVAscript), Virtual environments (VRML), Collaborative tools

My studies so far

I'm studying NED11 (Internet Design) online at Curtin University of Technology this semester. My other online unit, NET11 (Internet Communications) required me to start a 'learning log' in the form of a blog, or website, or if we couldn't manage that even a word document as a type of progress-meter of our studies throughout the semester.

I've liked having my NET11 blog so much that I had to start one for my NED11 studies as well :) (just this blog doesn't get marked! )

The first few days of study have been spent reading about various things to do with the Internet, such as the formation of ARPA (also known as DARPA throughout the years), leaning about packet switching, and reading the complete history of the Internet through various websites.

My first task was to read through Tim Berners-Lee's answers to FAQ by the press and answer seven questions relating to those FAQs. This was a little hard, but I did take the time to answer each one. We aren't getting assessed on this, I guess it's just to increase our knowledge of the Internet and Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web.

Today I'm going to read Hobbes' Internet Timeline, and then my task is to find 5 milestones that are relevant to the following: World Wide Web, screen design and multimedia design.

Time to start studying!

- Mary