In an article on Yahoo! Tech yesterday announced the 20th Anniversary of the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee and other scientists of (CERN) paved the way to start the web.
So if the web was created in 1989, making it 20 years old yesterday, why was the first domain name registered in 1985?
Symbolics.com was registered March 15, 1985.
Well the internet was really created Before the Web was created! I am not an expert at this but I had to look into it a little because it made me scratch my head a little.
So the Internet started in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s.
The first commercialisation of an ISP in the 1980′s.
Creation of the The Web, WWW, (World Wide Web) in 1989.
The first web browser was created in 1990.
It is reported the first website created was by CERN and launched Aug 6, 1991. It was also the very first Web Directory.
The Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs (domain names). Source Wikipedia /Terminology
I can’t say I knew the Internet and the Web were two different things. Intersting stuff. Wikipedia has lots of interesting info you wish to explore more about the Internet and the WWW (World Wide Web) .
I do know, that the net is still very, very young and domain names play a very vital part of it! With the first website only being created in 1991 is something pretty crazy if you think about it! Only about 18 years ago. Hundreds of years ago the first passenger car was invented.
Think how fast the net has grown in it’s very short life so far. It has been reported that there are 1.5 Billion Internet users as of Jan 2009. The World population is approx 6.7 Billion and approx 32 Billion searches are done on Google.com Each Month! That is only ONE website!!!!
Ms Domainer
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When I did research for my memoir, I ran across a NYT article from 1968 or 1969 that discussed how people would soon be able to do research from home and make reservations for hotels, theater tickets, sports events, etc., via a dial up system.
The author even talked about the fragmented nature of this search method and that the government and universities would be the likely starting and bouncing off points for this technology. They didn’t call it the internet, though.
I believe Bell Labs was also working on such a system. I didn’t really follow up on the article because it wasn’t really germane to my book. Still, it was an interesting sidelight.
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Domain Marvelous
Simple communication between different devices was actually pioneered in the 1950s and early 1960s, although the internet as we know it, came into existence early 1990s.
Anyways, the internet is still an infant; only time will tell what else evolves.
Doemainer
Yes, interesting that a domain name was registered before the launch of the WWW. And what a journey the 20 years have been! I wonder what the next 20 years will bring? More tlds, more reliance on search engines, etc. Will we be leaning towards vertical search engines depending of category specific domains?
Interesting thoughts.
Thanks!
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