What is the Interweb?

According to United States Senator Ted Stevens, "the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

The Internet is hardware - servers, routers, switches, cables and tubes.

The big ol' WWW is software - it runs on top of the Internet through server applications (like Apache, PHP, SQL, etc.) and protocols (like HTTP).

The Internet was a military invention, starting off as ARPANET; a system for army peeps to stay in contact even if one of their routing computers died, because of war or faulty cabling - usually the latter.

The Web came from the mind of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, some pretty cool guy at CERN who wanted to share documents with scientists and wasn't afraid of anything. He also made the first version of HTML, which was pretty much just a rip off of SGML.

The first web server was a NeXTcube computer - created by Steve Jobs after he was kicked out of Apple (but before he was hired by them again). If Apple executives never fired Steve, the Wub may never have existed.

God praise the Apple.

posted by Grey  # 18:34

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