World Wide Web LESTER BREWSTER
DEVRY UNIVERSITY ONLINE
ECOM -210
Table of Content Page
Introduction 3
Internet History 3
Development of the World Wide Web 5
Growth of the World Wide Web 6
Commercialization of the World Wide Web 8
The Bubble Burst 9
Aftermath of the Bubble 10
Conclusion 11
Reference 13
Introduction
The origins of the World Wide Web can be traced back to 1980. Since then it has evolved beyond what its creators imagined would be a file-sharing tool for academic and U.S. government contract researchers. Tim Berners-Lee, an independent contractor at CERN, built ENQUIRE, as a personal database of people and software models, but also as a way to play with hypertext; each new page of information in ENQUIRE had to be linked to an existing page. This paper endeavors to give a brief history of the internet and a detailed understanding of the rise and fall of the early days of the World Wide Web. It will also discuss the bubble and outline the basics of this extraordinary time. Which companies made the most? Which companies lost the most?
Internet History
What is the internet? According to The Federal Networking Council (FNC) the following language reflects their definition of the term "Internet". "Internet" refers to the global information system that -- (i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons; (ii) is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and (iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure