The U.S. Department of Defense established ARPANET. ARPANET linked computers around the country and provided a data highway for military communications.
ARPANET The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network created in the 1960s made it possible for military and university computers to communicate long distances and to share files through an interconnected network.
Networks have become a part of everyday life. The original Internet was primarily a text-based network.
Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web, using a graphic user interface (GUI) with hyperlinks to access information on the Internet.
hyperlink Text or image that “links” the user to another document when clicked
Although the Web is only one part of the Internet, most users think they are the same thing.
The Internet is hardware connected together to create a network.
The Web includes software (browsers) that send information along the Internet’s hardware.