In the last few years, Internet has created an infrastructure for a global market place and the revolutionary communications opportunities provided by it has given way to a large spectrum of business and private applications. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio and computer formed the base of series of innovations that has enabled communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations. The Internet is a mechanism for information dissemination having a worldwide broadcasting capability and a medium of interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.
This report highlights the history of Internet revolution followed by detailed information on World Wide Web history and its development. Its history is complex and involves many aspects - technological, organization and community. It influences not only the technical fields of computer communications but the entire society as we are shifting towards increasing use of online tools to accomplish electronic commerce, information acquisition, and community operations. .
2. Origins of the Internet.
Walt Howe (2002.) states that the creation of Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. The U.S. Ministry of Defense's wanted a way in which their communications would be safe from enemy attack, and created a decentralized computer system to accomplish this task. In this system any computer connected by a communication line to a network could talk to any computer on the network, and files could be routed as needed, depending on what lines were available. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it.