Brief history of how the Internet was created
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The need for better communications was the primary reason the Internet was created. (Binary 0101)
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DARPA - Defense Advance Research Projects Agency built the original backbone of today's Internet in the 1980's
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Universities around the world began using this technology to share information
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Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) in November of 1989
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Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina created the first Graphical Web Browser called Mosaic in November of 1993 (21 Years ago)
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In early 1994 Tim Berners-Lee came up with URL's (Uniform Resource Locators) to use with HTTP
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