In today’s lecture, we learnt about the development of the internet from its start 50 years ago, and the people who were a part of its progression to what we know today.
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
One of the most important people in the development of the internet was mathematician, engineer, and scientist Vannevar Bush. Not only was he part of the Manhattan Project, but he also released an article named “As we may think”, which shares his thoughts about the possibility of a machine in the future with “networks of information knitted together”. This article has been credited with shaping both the World Wide Web and the personal computer.
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee was an English computer scientist who is credited with the invention of HTML, the World Wide Web, HTTP and the URL system, all of which made the internet we know today possible.
His invention of the Web became public in 1993, and content was made accessible to the public through web servers for the first time.