Seven stunning facts about the Internet

The Internet was created in the first place, to exchange information. However, it quickly became the people something more, turned into a virtual world with its laws and recognizable symbols. < Website published a fascinating collection of facts about the global web - Internet.



1. The idea of ​​a network of computers was born in the bowels of the Agency for Defense Advanced Research Projects United States (DARPA). Interestingly, the first message transmitted by one computer to another on the ARPANET were the letters LO. It was originally planned to give the floor LOGIN, but after the second letter of the line went dead.

< 2. The HTTP protocol and the language HTML, you have what we now call the Internet, it is a byproduct of research of the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN). Yes, the man who came up with the great and terrible Large Hadron Collider. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) proposed in 1989 a way to improve the internal system of exchange of documents through the use of hyperlinks. It is because of this minor project was born after the World Wide Web.

3. Do you think that the first online broadcast was dedicated to some high-profile events such as the launch of the spacecraft or the president's speech? No, you're wrong! The first ever webcam has been installed in the University of Cambridge in 1991 and was aimed at the coffee machine. Thanks to the scientists could not get up from their seats to find out coffee or cook them yet.

4. Look carefully this video.



Personally, I see a very ordinary young man who wandered unclear why the zoo. In fact, this is the famous American entrepreneur Jawed Karim, one of the developers of the famous payment system PayPal, founder of YouTube and author of the first video, uploaded to the site. The one that you just saw.

5. The world's first web page was created by Tim Berners-Lee August 6, 1991. It contained information about what the World Wide Web, how to install a web server, download a browser and other background information. Subsequently, this page has been lost and found again thanks to available off-line copies. Today, this page is available here. And if you want to see how this page looks on screen in the past, here's emulator.

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7. Every year, Google publishes statistics popular queries. In the outgoing 2015 loudest world events began armed attacks in Paris and the Oscars. A complete list of popular searches, you can find on this page.



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