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