Internet History Notes

Some internet history sites can be found at:
Computers and Internet: Internet: History

In particular, check out PBS's Internet Timeline, another good timeline, and another timeline.

• Inspired by the cold war as an answer to how to communicate after nuclear attack.
• As the Internet celebrates its 25th anniversary, the military strategies
  that influenced its birth become historical footnotes. Approximately 40
  million people are connected to the Internet. More than $1 billion per
  year changes hands at Internet shopping malls, and Internet related
  companies like Netscape are the darlings of high-tech investors.

Date...	Hosts...	Domains
Jul 93	1,776,000	26,000
Jul 96	12,881,000	488,000
Jul 98	40,000,000 ?	2,380,000

Q:What are the practical differences between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

The Internet is a global networks' system that consist of the millions of local area networks (LANs) and computers (hosts). So it's a tech system that is working according to the basic computer science concepts and rules. It was developed 25 - 30 years ago.

The WWW is only one of the ways of practical implementations of the Internet.
Some of the other ways are the following ones:

• gophers -- the dispersed system of menu driven subject oriented dBs
• ftp -- the files' exchange system
• email systems, and so on...

The WWW (that was born around 1992) is a method (and system) that provides the members of the Internet's community with historically new opportunity to create and permanently develop the global field of the texts (as well as images, animations, sounds, etc.), all parts of which are able to crossconnected with each others.

In other words, the WWW is a fast growing (millions of authors are adding new pages every day) global field of text that consist of billions of words (as well as sounds, images, animations, ... etc.) all parts are able to realtime crossconnect and interact with each others.
...
So my definition of the Web is the following one:
The Web is a method (and technology) of the WORDS' crossconnections and interactions (as well as the images, animations, sounds and so on...).

The Web uses the Internet to store, locate and connect the WORDS as some of the others more tradition methods of the WORDS's connection used the stones, skins, papyruses, papers, phone, recorders, radio, TV ...

For instance, according to the Sun Microsystems' statistics "the total number of the Internet's sites crossconnections more than doubled every month". ( Sun press-seminar , January 1995, Mountain View, CA).

Gregory R. Gromov