Term Papers on What Is The World Wide Web (WWW)?

Term Paper Title	What Is The World Wide Web (WWW)?
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What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?

To understand the World Wide Web one must first grasp the concept of a unified, collective faction.  Thus to understand we must first grasp what the Internet and cyberspace actually are.  Cyberspace is the virtual universe that the Internet was created and is maintained in.  The term was first coined in the mid-eighties by author and visionary William Gibson.  His novel “Neuromancer” described the future as a great collective of computers and he called this future universe  ‘cyberspace’.  The Internet on the other hand survives in this cyberspace by having a central backbone, to which everything travels on.  One might even liken the Internet and the World Wide Web to a human body, with its central nervous system radiating out in all directions and going to the different parts of the body (or in this case, computers).  This new technology is making everyone change his or her way of thinking, but is that a good thing?

In the 1950's the U.S. Military was involved in the “Cold War” with the former U.S.S.R., and with the successful launch of the space shuttle sputnik, the Americans began to get frightened.  The thought was “if the Soviets had the power to launch a ship into space then surely they could knock out the then existent computer that controlled the whole Department of Defense”.  Thus ‘ARPANET’ (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was created.  The backbone that would form the Internet was now in place with about four mainframes linked together so that if one system were knocked out the others would still function.

In 1990, ARPANET was disbanded and the first commercial provider came on the scene.  Of course back then it was all text based and mostly from a ‘UNIX’ prompt, but still it was more of a framework than there had ever previously been.  Then in 1991 CERN released a version of the World Wide Web that was very primitive, graphics based, and only involved around 130 web sites, but it was a start.

Over the years that followed up ...

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