2: The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards

When learning about web development, it is useful to know where the Web as a whole entity came from, and how web standards were agreed on and developed. In this article Mark Norman-Francis does just that, looking at the Web's early origins, the browser wars, and the formation of the W3C and the rise of web standards.

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Here is an artikel about an interview with one of the fathers of the Internet, unfortunatly only in german:
http://www.heise.de/ct/99/21/128/

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Dennoch kann man den Bau eines IMP nicht ohne die Vorarbeit sehen. Den Anstoss zur Konstruktion der ganzen Netzwerktechnik gab Bob Taylor, ein Mitarbeiter der Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Er ärgerte sich über die Tatsache, dass er drei verschiedene Terminals brauchte, um mit drei Universitäten zu kommunizieren, an denen die ARPA militärische Grundlagenforschungen finanzierte. Sein Wunsch nach einer einheitlichen Kommunikation wurde von J.C.R. Licklider aufgenommen, der zusammen mit Taylor das bahnbrechende Papier The Computer as Communications Device veröffentlichte [1]. In ihm schimmerte erstmals die Idee der Vernetzung aller Computer auf. Danach brauchte es knapp sechs Jahre, bis die Grundlagenforschung so weit abgeschlossen war, um das Vernetzungsprojekt in die Tat umzusetzen.
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Heute ist Roberts einer der Väter, die am stärksten gegen die Idee vom kriegssicheren Internet polemisieren: ‘Es ist ein Gerücht, dass das Internet entwickelt wurde, um einen nuklearen Krieg auszuhalten. Das ist total falsch. Wir wollten ein effizientes Netz aufbauen.’ Erst später sei das Argument eines Atomschlags hinzugekommen - das erwies sich beim Lockermachen weiterer Forschungsgelder als äußerst nützlich.
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One cannot see the building of a IMP nevertheless without the preliminary work. Bob Taylor, a coworker of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) gave the impact for construction to the whole network technology. It was annoyed at the fact that it needed three different terminals, in order to communicate with three universities, at those the ARPA military basic researches financed. Its desire for uniform communication was taken up by J.C.R. Licklider, which published the innovative paper The computer together with Taylor as Communications DEVICE [1]. In it for the first time the idea of the networking of all computers gleamed up. Afterwards it needed scarcely six years, until the basic research was so far final, to put around the networking project into practice.
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Today is Robert's one of the fathers, who polemisieren most strongly against the idea of the war-safe Internet: `It is a rumor that the Internet was developed, in order to bear a nuclear war. That is totally wrong. We wanted to develop an efficient net. 'The argument of an atomic impact was added only later - proved when loose making further research funds than extremely useful.
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Hi all,
for those who would be interested to read about the history of Hypertext, in french (oops!) there is a link to the 1st part of the article : http://www.hiseo.fr/contenus/les-origines-de-l-hypertexte-et-du-web-1/.
Don't miss in part 2 the video (length 90 minutes) where Douglas Engelbart showed in 1969 the fist multimedia computer. Amazing!

Isn't W3C a singular 'word'?

Just wanted to report a quick typo:

"Tim Berners-Lee had been working on a information management system..."

should read "..on an information..."

I'm not sure you want these comments clogged with typo reports. Is there another way to report such minor corrections?