Web 411

The web is a part of the internet. The internet is a network that connects millions of computers together, allowing them to communicate with one another no matter how far apart they are from one another. The information travels over the internet through many languages called protocols. The web is a way of accessing information on the internet. It uses the protocol HTTP. Things that use HTTP communicate to exchange business logic, which are rules on how data can be created, stored changed. The web uses browsers like Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox to access web pages.

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Ebay is an online market for people to purchase items and sell them. You can basically buy and sell anything on eBay if it is not a human person. You can buy automobiles, toys, engines, school supplies and more. Ebay for some people is their online store where they can sell their own stuff and make money. Most smaller objects will be shipped to you, while larger objects you usually have to go and pick it up like a car. The government did not make the internet. Private enterprise is responsible for making the internet. The government envisioned a World Wide Web as early as the 1940s and went on to develop Pentagon’s Advanced Research Project Agency. DARPA comes up with new technology for the government. It developed and early networking system called ARPANET that went live in 1969. It’s what evolved into what is the internet today. The people that invented the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau. This was invented in 1989. Tim Berners-Lee was a British scientist at CERN. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger created Wikipedia in 2001. The first Youtube video ever is called,“Me At The Zoo.”