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The ARPANET became ever more popular and
interconnected, and its user base grew by leaps and bounds.
Eventually, commercial computer sites began hooking into the
network as well as educational, scientific and governmental
sites that had more tradition on the network.
As the network grew, the military moved its portion of ARPANET
to another entity, and thus the Internet was left to take shape.
In 1989, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) created a worldwide network of supercomputers to
smooth the progress of access to data for doctors, physicists,
and other scientists and technocrats. The CERN network quickly
grew into the massive Internet area called the
World Wide
Web.
The web is what most people today call the
Internet, although there is in fact much more to it.
With page-oriented documents and links to graphics, sounds, and
videos, today the
Internet is truly a multimedia experience. |
