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The World Wide Web

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Barry

This is a video of Sir Tim Berners-Lee at a conference in the Hilton at Kuala Lumpur, discussing the advent and instant popularity of the World Wide Web.  It appears this video was taken in 2007, but it refers back to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s inventing of the WWW in 1989.

I don’t believe it is necessary to explain why the World Wide Web is important to the world as we know it.  The WWW made information universally accessible, allowed information sharing, and created an eventual expansion of communication.

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Deployment of the ARPANET

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Wu

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/First-arpanet-imp-log.jpg

The image above is the very first message transmitted through ARPANET in 1969, the predecessor to the internet.  ARPANET was created by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense as a line of communication that can survive a bombing attack.

The ARPANET is important because it made the Internet what it is today, an invaluable tool that makes communications worldwide easier, faster and more efficient.

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