WWW: Beyond the Basics

1. History of the World Wide Web

1.2. History of the Net

This section provides an outline of events that comprise the history of the Internet. Each event is presented individually and its significance is assumed to be self-evident. A detailed historical treatment of each event is beyond the scope of this section and has no direct relevance to the history of the World Wide Web. While the section may lack in continuity, the items contained here are too diverse and disjoint to be put in narative format in any cohesive fashion. Most of the contents of this section are based on [Zakon].

It all began a long long time ago. 1858 actually...


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