EARLY USE OF THE INTERNET

Technology continued to advance, and in the 1980s use of the internet expanded from governmental and military organizations into education.

ITNET was introduced by IBM to provide email and listserv systems to primarily educational institutions and college campuses. In 1981 the National Science Foundation created CSNET56 to allow computers to connect outside of government agencies and networks.

In 1983 TCP/IP became the standard Internet protocol. TCP/IP specified how data should be formatted, transmitted and received across internet connections. The same year the Domain Name System was introduced and allowed domain names to automatically be assigned an IP address.

As technology advanced and connections, such as T1 lines, were developed and provided faster connection speeds between hosts, use of the Internet grew.

The number of online hosts grew from 1,000 in 1984 to over 100,000 in 1989. Still primarily used for data transfer and email communication, the Internet was growing in popularity in educational and governmental communities.

In 1990 a hypertext system, eventually known as HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language), was created and implemented by Tim Berners-Lee. This system opened the way for creation of the first web page as we know it in 1991.

HTML allowed computer code to be interpreted and displayed graphically on a computer monitor in a user friendly way. That same year the first content-based search protocol was developed. This protocol examined the contents of a file in addition to just the file names.

What I learnt from this section: 

I learnt that TCP/IP was used for formatting, transmitting and receiving data through the internet connect; which in turn allowed the the fast growth of the internet use. Online hosts grew considerably as in 1984 there was only a 1000 known hosts but grew to 100,000 in 1989 which was still solely used for emails and data transfers; this was becoming very popular in the education and governmental communities. 

HTML-a hypertext system was made and created by Tim Berners-Lee which lead to the creation of the web's first page as we knew it in 1991. This new code allowed computer users to create and interpret graphics to be displayed on computers in a user friendly way.