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Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet. [49] Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. [50]
SpotLife is released for recorded and live video content. [14] 2002 October Technology Adaptive bit rate over HTTP is created by the DVD Forum at the WG1 Special Streaming group. 2003 May Technology The On2 TrueMotion VP6 codec is released. [15] 2004 June Products MindGeek is founded as Too Much Media. Its name is changed to Manwin in 2010, and ...
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915–1990) was a faculty member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and researcher at Bolt, Beranek and Newman.He developed the idea of a universal computer network at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, [14] and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork. [15] Today, the term Internet most commonly refers to the global system of interconnected computer networks, though it may also refer to any group of smaller networks. [16]
A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, February 1993; Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 [110] Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,418,138; Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S. Patent 6,574,628
On January 13, 1994, Gore "became the first U.S. vice president to hold a live interactive news conference on an international computer network". [25] Gore was also asked to write the foreword to the first edition of the 1993 internet guide, The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking by Tracy LaQuey. In the foreword, he ...