1. MEDIA IN THE ONLINE
AGE

2. INTERNET AND
WORLD-WIDE WEB
The internet is a massive network of networks, a
networking infrastructure. It connects millions and
thousands of computers together forming a
network in which they can communicate with one
another as long as they are connected to the
internet or Wi-fi.
World-wide web or web, is a away of accessing
information through internet. It is a model of
sharing information on Internet.

3. HISTORY
In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee, an independent contractor at the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, built ENQUIRE, as a
personal database of people and software models, but also as a way to play
with hypertext; each new page of information in ENQUIRE had to be linked
to an existing page.
In 1984 Berners-Lee returned to CERN, and considered its problems of
information management: physicists from around the world needed to share
data, yet they lacked common machines and any shared presentation
software.
Shortly after Berners-Lee's return to CERN, TCP/IP protocols were installed
on some key non-Unix machines at the institution, turning it into the largest
Internet site in Europe within a few years. As a result, CERN's infrastructure
was ready for Berners-Lee to create the Web.
Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in March 1989 for "a large hypertext database
with typed links". Although the proposal attracted little interest, Berners-Lee
was encouraged by his boss, Mike Sendall, to begin implementing his
system on a newly acquired NeXT workstation. He considered several
names, including Information Mesh, The Information Mine or Mine of
Information, but settled on World Wide Web.

4. RELATED QUESTIONS

5. Q. WHEN DID INTERNET
STARTED AND BY
WHOM?
The initial idea is credited as being Leonard
Kleinrock's after he published his first paper
entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication
Nets" on May 31, 1961.
In 1962, J.C.R. Licklider became the first Director
of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network.
In addition to ideas from Licklider, Robert Taylor
helped create the idea of the network that later
became ARPANET.

6. Q. WHO CREATED
EMAILING?
In 1978, a 14-year-old named VA Shiva Ayyadurai developed a
computer program, which replicated the features of the
interoffice, inter-organizational paper mail system. He named
his program “EMAIL”.

7. Q. WHEN WAS SPAM
BORN?
On May 3, 1978, the Internet witnessed a glorious
and not particularly welcome birth: The first ever
spam email. Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the Digital
Equipment Corporation, blasted out his message
to 400 of the 2600 people on ARPAnet, the DARPA-funded
so-called “first Internet.” Naturally: he was
selling something. (Computers, or more
specifically, information about open houses where
people could check out the computers.) He
annoyed a lot of people. And he also had some
success, with a few recipients interested in what
he was pushing. And thus, spam was born.

8. Q. WHAT HAPPENED
IN 1988?
The year 1988 was important in the early history of
internet. In this year the first well known computer-virus
came, the 1998 Internet worm. The first
officially sanctioned online commercial e-mail
provider debuted as well. A computer virus is
a malware program that, when executed, replicates
by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified)
into other computer programs, data files, or the
boot sector of the hard drive; when this replication
succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be
"infected”

9. Q. WHAT WAS
LAUNCHED IN 1989?
The NASA spacecraft(Galileo) was launched which studied
the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other
solar system bodies. It consisted of an orbiter and entry
probe. It was launched on October 18, 1989, carried by Space
Shuttle Atlantis, on the STS-34 mission.

10. Q. WHY WAS 1995
SIGNIFICANT FOR
INTERNET USERS?
There are a lot of things that happened in 1995.
Netscape introduced JavaScript.
Netscape Navigator completely dominated the web browser market.
Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 1.
Microsoft released Windows 95. Most people were using Win 3.1 or 3.11 at the
time.
Sun announced Java.
Intel released their 133 MHz Pentium processor, and the Pentium Pro processor
(running up to a mighty 200 MHz).
Sony launched the first Playstation.
Linus Torvalds released version 1.2.0 of the Linux kernel (a.k.a. Linux 95).
And sadly enough: The final original strip of Calvin & Hobbes was published.

11. Q. WHEN DID GOOGLE
CAME-UP?
Google began in March 1996 as a research project
by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students
at Stanford University.

12. Q. WHEN WAS WIKIPEDIA
LAUNCHED?
The Wikipedia was launched on Monday 15
January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger;
however, its technological and conceptual
underpinnings predate this. The earliest known
proposal for an online encyclopedia was made
by Rick Gates in 1993, but the concept of a free-as-in-
freedom online encyclopedia was proposed
by Richard Stallman in December 2000.