These days, the Internet plays a vital role in our everyday lives. We use Internet networks to send enormous quantities of data from one part of the world to another in the blink of an eye, and many modern activities rely on this exchange of information.<\/p>\n
The Internet has taken gigantic evolutionary steps over the course of its relatively recent history. We\u2019ve compiled a selection of intriguing facts and figures about its history and evolution.<\/p>\n
In everyday modern speech, the words \u201cInternet\u201d and \u201cWorld Wide Web\u201d are used interchangeably to describe a set of websites that can be accessed using a browser, i.e., a dedicated programme installed on an electronic device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.).<\/p>\n
In reality, the two concepts are not entirely the same. The word \u201cInternet\u201d technically describes the physical infrastructure<\/strong> that allows us to exchange data, while \u201cWeb\u201d and \u201cWorld Wide Web\u201d describe data on the Internet<\/strong> which users can access.<\/p>\n In the 1960s<\/strong> the United States came up with the theory for an innovative telecommunication system<\/strong> that could transmit key data for national defence purposes<\/p>\n In 1969, the first four Internet nodes were created <\/strong>and used to connect four universities in the USA. This first network was called ARPANET<\/strong> and formed the basis for the Internet network developed in the 1970s and \u201880s<\/strong>, which crossed the borders of the United States into Europe.<\/p>\n At the time, however, there were no websites as we know them today. Data packets were simply exchanged on the network. The first website<\/strong> was created at CERN in Geneva in 1991<\/strong> and the first browser arrived two years later, in 1993<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In that same year, CERN made its Internet technology public<\/strong> and from that moment on, the Internet experienced unstoppable growth and has since been embraced and developed by both private individuals and businesses.<\/p>\n The first name<\/strong> given to the communication network by theorists was the Intergalactic Computer Network<\/strong>, hence the abbreviation \u201cInternet\u201d.<\/p>\n In these early stages, Italy was at the forefront of the technological revolution and was the fourth European country to launch its own Internet network<\/strong>.<\/p>\n But when did people actually start using the Internet in Italy<\/strong>? The very first Italian Internet node was switched on by the University of Pisa<\/strong> in 1986, where leading researchers were stationed at the time.<\/p>\n Programming languages<\/strong> form the basis of human-computer interaction. They are formal languages that allow humans to give instructions to machines<\/strong> so they can process incoming data packets and send outgoing data packets.<\/p>\nThe history of the Internet and a few key dates<\/h2>\n
Interesting facts about the origins of the Internet<\/h2>\n
What is a programming language?<\/h2>\n