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The Internet is the network of connected computers that the web works on.  It's also what emails and files travel through.  The Internet started in the 1960s with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, or ARPANET.  It was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and created by computer scientists.  The reasons for the creation of the Internet are the government wanting their researchers to share information faster and because of the heating up of the cold war.  Originally ARPANET was a great success and evolved into what we know today as the internet.  However, it was limited in its membership due to the lack of academic and research organizations that had contact with the Defense Department.  Today the internet is still used to transfer information between computers, but it is not used to only send classified information through, it is also used by the average citizen to send emails and files from computer to computer, as well as navigate to websites like Youtube and Blogger.

The world wide web is the things you would see while navigating on the roads of the internet, such as houses and shops.  Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the creation of the world wide web in 1989.  Originally it was created to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between universities and institutes around the world.  Today the World Wide Web is used for social media and for accessing article information.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same things.  Interestingly though, they do work together to make the online world we are familiar with.  In a metaphorical sense, the internet is the road and the world wide web as mentioned previously, are the houses and shops you see while on the road.  The world wide web is something I am on right now, hence why the link begins with a www.  The Internet is the search engine that you use to get to the world wide web.  This is the reason you cannot get to YouTube if you do not have an internet connection.

The first website was launched on August 6, 1991.  It was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web.  Surprisingly enough, the website is still up to this day, you can find it at the following URL: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web#:~:text=Where%20the%20Web%20was%20born,and%20institutes%20around%20the%20world.

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who lived from 1914-2000.  She is often credited as "the mother of Wi-Fi" and other wireless communications like GPS and Bluetooth, due to the communication system she and George Antheil created in an effort to help America in world war 2.  The system was originally designed to guide torpedoes to their intended targets of war.  The system used "frequency hopping" among radio waves where both transmitter and receiver hop to new frequencies together.  This would prevent the interception of radio waves.  Lamarr and Antheil sought a patent and military support for the invention, which they did receive.  She has a song about her titled, "This is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" which was created by Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp.  The song was released as an ode to Hedy Lamarr.

In 1989, Ericsson Mobile wanted to find a solution for a wireless headset.  It wasn't until 1997 that they developed a solution.  In that same year, IBM contacted Ericsson for a collaboration where IBM wanted to integrate a mobile phone into a ThinkPad.  The companies went to work on the idea but the current cell phone technology drained too much power for it to be viable.  As a solution, Ericsson proposed that they would integrate their new short-link technology on both Ericsson phones and IBM ThinkPads.  Both companies agreed to make it an open industry standard and IBM contacted Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba to get more of the industry leaders on board.  That special interest group now contains more than 36,000 companies.  The name was suggested by Jim Kardach who drew inspiration from the Viking King Harald Blatand whose name translates into Harald Bluetooth.  Blatand was famous for him being able to unite Norway, Denmark, southern Sweden, and even parts of Poland.  The log originates from Harald Blatand as well, originating from the runes that formed the Viking King's initials.  The logo is the runes Hagall, and Bjarkan put together.

In 1991, NCR and the AT&T corporation invented the precursor to 802.11 intended for use in cashier systems.  The first version of the 802.11 protocol was released in 1997 and provided up to 2 Mbit/s link speeds.  Two years after a group of major companies formed the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, WECA but now the Wi-Fi Alliance hired a marketing firm that named the new technology Wi-Fi due to its pleasing sound and similarity to "hi-fi."  Wi-Fi is not an abbreviation for "wireless fidelity."


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https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47523993#:~:text=The%20world%20wide%20web%2C%20or,emails%20and%20files%20travel%20across.

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https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet#:~:text=ARPANET%20adopted%20TCP%2FIP%20on,invented%20the%20World%20Wide%20Web.

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https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web#:~:text=Where%20the%20Web%20was%20born,and%20institutes%20around%20the%20world.

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https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr

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