Historical record · Networks first, the Web later
Internet
Follow experimental networks and shared protocols, then the Web as a service built on that infrastructure.
Primary topic: Science & Technology
Explore the interactive road →Scope of this guide
Curated overview · The Internet and World Wide Web are different. Many people and institutions contributed; this selection is not a claim that one person invented the entire system.
Actual source-review status
0 completed · 0 partial · 6 pending chapter reviews in this subject.
The factual audit is unfinished. These counts come from recorded chapter reviews, not legacy “reviewed” wording, confidence labels or image checks. A completed source review retains scientific and historical uncertainty.
Key chapters
- 1969 CE
ARPANET connects its first computers →
An experimental network links four research sites.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments. - 1 January 1983
ARPANET switches to TCP/IP →
A coordinated change helps networks communicate.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments. - 1989 CE
A web for the world →
Connected documents make the internet navigable.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments.
Connected roads
These are authored connections in the existing catalogue, not an automatically inferred family tree.
- Explore an earlier change in information sharing (related topic) · Subject guide
All chapters & review records
- ARPANET connects its first computerspending
- A way to connect networkspending
- ARPANET switches to TCP/IPpending
- NSFNET expands research accesspending
- A web for the worldpending
- CERN releases Web softwarepending
Sources
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