Blog Assignment 2-History of the Internet/Web

The idea of the internet was conceived by a MIT professor by the name of J.C.R. Licklider in the early 1960's. He dreamed of a world where people could share information instantly with computers in scientific labs, and on the military field. Licklinder left MIT for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1962 to work on his idea. In 1965 Leonard Kleinrock of MIT developed the theory of packet switching which would be the basis of all internet connections in the future. That same year, Lawrence Roberts connected a Massachusetts computer to a California computer over dial up through phone lines. This proved that long distance connections were possible, and that telephone lines couldn't handle the information, which confirmed Kleinrocks theory of "packet switching." Most people use the terms internet and web interchangeably, when in actuality they are separate. The internet is a series of connected computers that exchange information, the web is a series of connected websites within the internet. The process of the web is fairly simple. In order for the web to work you need a local computer (the one your using) and remote computer, or server(located somewhere else.) When you type in a website in a internet browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) your local computer asks the remote or server computer for the webpage content, which is then sent from the remote computer back to the local computer to be displayed on the screen.