The Internet is a extremely big network that connects computers all over the world. Through the Internet, people can share information and communicate from anywhere with an Internet connection. Scientists Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn can be recognized on the shortlist of people credited as inventors of the internet. On January 1, 1983, researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet came up with the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), the standard for how information is shared between different networks. It started off as a way for government researchers to share information but today we use the internet for almost anything. Me, and most kids from my generation can't imagine life without it.
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The Web was originally created to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
On August 6, 1991, without fanfare, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website.
THE URL: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Vic Hayes has been called the "father of Wi-Fi" because he carried the IEEE committee thatcreated the 802.11 standards in 1997. Before anyone even heard of Wi-Fi, Hayes established the standards that would make Wi-Fi possible.
Hedy Lamarrwas inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for the development of her frequency hopping technology in 2014. This led Lamarr to being named “the mother of Wi-Fi” and other wireless communications like GPS and Bluetooth. There is a song named "This is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" by Johnny Depp and Jeff Black. The lyrics talk about Lamarr being a genius but imprisoned in the world of movies and glamor.
Working in the mobile phone division of Ericsson in the mid-1990s, Dutch engineer Jaap Haartsen found a revolutionary way to connect electronic gadgets to each other at short range without the use of cables, using a variety of low-power radio frequencies.
Bluetooth was the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom; Kardach chose the name to imply that Bluetooth similarly unites communication protocols.The Bluetooth logo consists of a Younger Futhark bind rune for his initials, H (ᚼ) and B (ᛒ).
WECA named the new technology Wi-Fi. (Wi-Fi is not an abbreviation for “wireless fidelity”; the name was created by a marketing firm hired by WECA and chosen for its pleasing sound and similarity to “hi-fi” (high-fidelity).
SOURCES:
https://www.britannica.com/technology/Wi-Fi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi#:~:text=In%201991%2C%20the%20NCR%20Corporation,systems%2C%20under%20the%20name%20WaveLAN.
https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/
https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site
https://www.businessinsider.com/flashback-this-is-what-the-first-website-ever-looked-like-2011-6
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