Discussion

Nothing in this world exists on its own. Understanding the relationship between technologies, people, cultures, the arts, etc. will make you a smarter person. Understanding the relationship between today and yesterday will help you understand the present and predict the future. This is the most important reason to study the history of anything. With this in mind, let's take a look at the history of the Internet.

• The Internet is a group, of networked computers sharing a common protocol
• Major uses of the Internet include the world wide web, email and usenet
• English is the most common language used on the Internet (53%)
• Many people believe the Internet was invented in 1969 when four universities networked their computers as part of ARPANET
• The first email message was sent over ARPANET in 1971
• The world wide web took off when Mosaic, the first graphical web browser was released in 1993 by NCSA at UIUC
• Mosaic evolved into Netscape, which was the dominant browser until 1997, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer became the dominant browser
• The "dot-com crash" of 2002 barely slowed the growth of web sites
• So, where is all this going?

Also see web design statistics

Sources

• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• Wikipedia: Internet,World Wide Web, Mosaic
• NetHistory