Research Paper on:
History of the WWW

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that they put in the letters "www" at the outset. Those letters stand for the World Wide Web, an application which is arguably the most important on the Internet today.  Yet, the emergence of the World Wide Web has a long history and in fact, many people mistakenly call the Internet the web. That is how much this application has  permeated the lives of people who use the net. The web has become synonymous with the term net and Internet surfing. While the availability of the Internet is taken for  granted, it all began in 1945. That is when Vannevar Bush published an article in the Atlantic Monthly regarding a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex--a memory extension--and it would be  able to make and follow links between documents which were recorded on microfiche (Connolly, 2000). At this time that there were no personal computers. It was just a pie in  the sky idea. At this time, the world would go through two decades even before the Internet would emerge. During the 1960s, Doug Engelbart created a prototype for what he  called an oNLine System or NLS, something that would be able to accomplish hypertext browsing editing, email, and so forth (2000). He then invents the mouse and goes on  to coin the word Hypertext (2000). It was also during the 1960s that the Internet would be born and the histories of the Internet and the World Wide Web  become inextricable. The Internet began in 1969 as a simple network of university computers (Isaacson, 1999). It began to become popular in 1974 when Vint Cerf and  Robert Kahn created a protocol that enabled all computers on the network to transmit information to one another (1999). In other words, a language emerged which would enable all