The Information Superhighway

2020-04-27

From the Internet to the Web

In the 1990s, computers shifted firmly to information access machines for most Americans.

Professor Schmidt’s top 5 Computer Movies/TV shows

  1. Desk Set (1957)
  2. War Games (1983)
  3. You’ve Got Mail (1998)
  4. The Social Network (2010)
  5. Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, 2014-2017)

The Web

the first web Browser, 1993.

Where the Web was Run

Tim Berners-Lee

Jobs and Next

The first web page

The core technologies of the Web.

  1. HTTP
  2. HTML
  3. The Web Browser
  4. The URL/URI

Emulation 1: Use the original browser.

https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/#http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

The URI

uniform resource identifier: An identifying code uniform resource locator: An identifying location

Wayback machine (web.archive.org)

Yahoo in 1997

Wayback machine (web.archive.org)

Whitehouse.gov in 1996; search forms