In six pages and 2 parts this paper examines the history and development of Internet technology and web design. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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still not attaining access to the media. However, if we look at the history of this media we do not have to look back far, as the foundations of the
Internet are only in the 1960s. The advent of the Internet was not a planned event, it started as a United States Government defence project in 1969 by the
name of ARPANET (Maitra, 1982). When first becoming operational this was aimed at communication between government departments and academics (Newsweek, 1999). Initially,
it was set up so that there were several self contained centres in the United States that could be seen as able to communicate and be interdependent, but in the
case o a nuclear strike would also be self sufficient technically. However, it was noticed that the system was used for informal e-mails between the departments. The potential was present
as a form of communication. On its own this innovation would not have been sufficient to be the precursor to electronic commerce.
Then about four years later software for personal computers became available. This software heralded the entrance of Bill Gates to the technological world, as he was a co-author of this
programme (Newsweek, 1999). The next step was by the National Science Foundation (NSF) another United State federal agency, in the late 1980s, they brought together networking using the technology developed
as a result of ARPANET (Maitra, 1982). The interest in trading electronically was encouraged by announcements of proprietary networks by such companies as AT&T, Microsoft, Novell and Lotus.
Many of the networks were still visions, not existing yet in reality. Still only visions and projects under development of how the future of electronic trade may work (Bottoms, 1995).