INTERNET

The Internet has revolutionized the Communications world like nothing before.

The invention of the Telegraph, Telephone, Radio, T.V and Computer set the stage for this unprecedented Integration of Capabilities.

1989 : World Wide Web / Internet

World Wide Web (WWW or The Web) is an Information Space where Documents and other Web Resources are identified by  Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee a British computer scientist in 1989. Then, He gave it to the World for Free.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an Application Protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Development of HTTP was initiated by Tim Berners Lee at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1989.

Internet : ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there Researchers began to assemble the “Network of Networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic Location.

INTERNET made the World a Global Village as far as Information is Concern.

1995 : Internet explorer

Internet Explorer is a discontinued series of Graphical Web browsers developed by Microsoft (an American multinational technology company) and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic Location. It made the World a Global Village as far as Information is Concern.

Web Search Engine : A Software System that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

The information may be a mix of Web Pages, Images and other types of File. Some search engines also mine data available in database or Open Directories.

Some Earlier and Popular Search Engines

1993 : W3Catalog / Ali Web / JumpStation / WWW Worm

1995 : Yahoo! (and Others)

1998 : Google! / msn (and Others)

2004 : Yahoo! Search (and Others)

2005 : AOL Search (and Others)

2006 : Ask.com (and Others)                 [Inactive / Active]

INTERNET in INDIA

1995 :  The First Publicly available Internet Service in India was launched by state-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) on 14 August 1995.