Revolution Of The Internet

Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the World Wide Web in March of 1989. On Christmas day of 1990, Berners-Lee created the first successful communication between an HTTP client and a server. From there he designed and built the first Web browser, and the first Web page went live on August 6, 1991.

While Berners-Lee is credited for the invention of the World Wide Web, he did not invent the Internet.

First Web Server (Next Computer)

The two are not one and the same. Internet is a network of computer networks that spans the globe. It is the hardware and software that provides connections between multiple computers.
The World Wide Web is just a service of the Internet. It's a bunch of interconnected documents and resources and their specific locations (via hyperlinks and URLs) online.

The average person spends three hours per day surfing the mobile web and spend 6 hours per day online at work. The Internet consumes our lives, but most people don't actually know what it is or how it works.
Do you know why all web addresses start with http://? How about the first ever domain name or web page?

When you connect to the Internet, your computer becomes one of many in the collective network that is the Internet. For instance, your work computer could be connected to a local area network (LAN) or a modem which connects to an Internet service provider (ISP). When you connect to an ISP, your computer becomes a part of its network. That network is already connected to another larger network, and that network is connected to yet another network, and so on and so forth across the globe. The Internet is comprised of servers and clients. Servers are machines that provide services to other machines. Clients use these services. So when you sign online at work, your computer becomes a client that's accessing a Web server.


To surf the Web, you need to be using a web browser, like Firefox or Chrome.
Web browsers do two things:

• They access a Web server and request a page on the Internet so the right information shows up

• They interpret the page's HTML tags and display the Web page's information in a way that is intended/easily readable for you.

So, Web browsers ping Web servers to request pages/information. The servers then respond and produce the proper pages/information, the page shows up on your screen. Servers find the requested information via URLs and IP addresses. Internet Protocol Addresses (IP Addresses) are unique ID numbers for every device that can access the Internet. They are formatted in a language that all computers can understand; computers use them to communicate with each other and find requested information/pages on networks and machines. URLs or Uniform Resource Locators are global addresses where specific documents and resources are located on the World Wide Web.