Week 10

History of the WWW -

- Idea for the opening of the Lit Review -

The concepts being considered are web based / oriented (Web Services)... their origins lie in the progression of web technologies and The Internet; so it is my thinking that we should talk about the web and the context of its evolution to show where the need arose for this technology and how it is applicable in the real world.

The best place to start - W3C .. home of the web standards and protocols;

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Specs.html

The RFCs were helpful ... but very detailed ... I am familiar with some of them from previous networking research.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt // I had a look through these
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2109/rfc2109


The site also had some external links like;

MIT - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
http://www.csail.mit.edu/ // a lot of this did not pertain to my area of study - it was interesting though
Computing Research Association
http://www.cra.org/ // again not a lot of helpful research - it was also interesting


This was more helpful - Finally some research i could use
A Little History of the World Wide Web
http://www.w3.org/History.html

which had links too;

A presentation from the W3C 10th Anniversary - history on the web and some important ppls.
http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/w3c10-HowItAllStarted/History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History
Gregory R. Gromov
http://netvalley.com/intval1.html
Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/
The last item was not so much good in terms of history but I know it would be useful later on so I kept it.


We got to know some interesting people ;

Chris Lilley

Dan Connolly

Dr. J.C.R. Licklider (always wanted to say i knew this guy)

Leonard Kleinrock

Norman Walsh

Paul Cotton

Robert W. Taylor

Roy Fielding

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Bray

Vinton Cerf

Also this link was sourced from History of Internet and WWW -

How the Internet Came to Be

Vinton Cerf, as told to Bernard Aboba

http://netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/cerf-how-inet.txt