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THE WORLD "WILD" WEB
In·ter·net noun \ˈin-tər-ˌnet\
The global information system that -- (1) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons; (2) is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and (3) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described herein.
The definition above is from October 24, 1995, when the Federal Networking Council (FNC) unanimously passed a resolution defining the term "Internet" (Cerf, 2014). The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network (History, 2013). The "World Wide Web", defined as
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an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet, however, was founded in 1989 as a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) project called ENQUIRE, initiated by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee" (Pew, 2014).
Since these two pivitol inventions, the internet and world wide web have expanded tremendously and online communication media have followed in suit. The CompuServe dial-up service is credited with an important role in estabolishing some of the first online-newspapers such as The Columbus Dispatch (created as an experiment by the Associated Press and CompuServe to observe the potential of online papers). In fact, "you could read an online newspaper as early as July 1, 1980. All a reader needed was a computer, such as an Apple II or the TRS-80 desktop model, and a modem with access to the online CompuServe dial-up service" (Sheddon, 2014).