I/W/W/B (Assigment #1)

Internet and World Wide Web

For years, people have evolved themselves around the digital world. As the future begins to unfold, so does technology, making bigger and bigger leaps into our society. Many don't notice, but at one point, people used to live without this form of technology. The creation of the World Wide Web and the Internet has helped the world begin this transformation into the future. But people still, to this day, genuinely need to understand the actual facts behind both the World Wide Web and the Internet. As someone who has lived with them my whole life, it is essential to talk about them from a learning standpoint.

Widely considered as the birthday of the Internet, January 1st, 1983, was when the Internet was born to transform the world into what it is today. At first, this creation was to be used primarily for government reasons. This idea was first transformed during the 1960s to help share private information for the military during the Cold War. But from 1983, it was defined as the idea of a “network within a network,” helping standardized computers communicate through a global network at the time. Obviously, helping to this day spread an enormous amount of knowledge from one device to another. This of course, helps to expand the knowledge from one person to another using this network format where intelligence can be spread through technological devices such as computers, phones, PCs, and much more in today's world. But this idea can't really be credited to just one person. Many scientists for years experienced an “academic network” until in the 1970s when a scientist named Vinton Cerf began to create a way for computers to communicate with each other; where years later, in 1983, the internet took off.

Currently, the World Wide Web is defined in 2023 as a “global information system” that merges off-computer technology, hypertext, and data networks. But at one point in time, the World Wide Web was meant for another reason. In 1989, a British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee created the WWW to meet the demand for automated information to travel between colleagues/scientists like himself between different universities and institutions everywhere at any time. Of course, in today's world, it is a GUI filled with information that subsets itself from the internet, which everyone uses, not just scientists sharing information.

Every day, people like me use the internet and the WWW to get answers to something and to go to websites, but in reality, most people know the difference between them. First off, they do work together in a pair, think of it as Batman and Robin. The internet is Batman, the main component connecting to almost everything, such as roads connecting towns, cities, and villages together, while the WWW is the robin or can be considered like shops or stores connecting to the streets (internet). So, although they work together side by side, they differ from what some people would have imagined. So overall, the Internet is the big piece, with the WWW being the smaller piece, although both work together to provide information to the users.

Going back to the World Wide Web, the creator of it, Tim Berners-Lee, also happened to create the first ever website http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html in 1991. Ever since its release in 1991, it has been up even though it may be useless in today's digital world. It's still around for those interested in viewing the history behind the website and what a website would have looked like in the early '90s. Although not accepted at first, his proposal to create the web was rejected, and then he ended up teaming up with an engineer who let him work on the proposal, unlike his past boss. From this, the WWW was created as the first-ever website.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and Lamarr

Before getting into the basic facts about two tremendous technological inventions, we must talk about the person who helped evolve them into what they are today. What I mean by this is that this woman, Hedy Lamarr, who many people only just started to learn about her after Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp released a song called “This Is A Song For Miss Hedy Lamarr” to pay homage to the way her life had ended and how to transformed into something awful to see even after inventing such a great idea and being a good actress for years. People who know her know that she may not have created WIFI or Bluetooth, which is why it is still used in today's world. She is most known for something called frequency hopping, which she had used in WWII for something called a torpedo guidance system to help control torpedoes used during battles for boats or protection for the ships. But now, it has led to wireless connections to Bluetooth and WIFI.

Starting with the idea of Bluetooth which was first discovered in 1993 by three industry leaders. Intel, Ericsson, and Nokia are together to standardize the technology Hedy Lamarr used for the torpedoes and instead use it to connect different products and industries. During one of their meetings, the name Bluetooth primarily came from Jim Kardach from Intel, who suggested that the name be based on King Harald Bluetooth for his ideas relating to their idea of connectivity from this point on, the name stuck forever as well as his impact on the Bluetooth as the symbol was also used from King Harald as the merging of the two symbols represents Harald's initials.

Lastly, WIFI had a long, complicated creation process. Starting with ALOHAnet in 1971, connecting the Hawaiian Islands wirelessly was the first view of what WIFI would be in the future. But when Vic Hayes, known as the father of Wi-Fi, began this work in 1974, it took the next step into truly becoming WIFI. In 1985, the U.S. FCC allowed the unlicensed use of the 2.4GHz band used by Wi-Fi. Doing this would help bring this idea into full view by the U.S. allowing Vic Hayes and his crew to use this GHz band. But once this was entirely created, the only problem was the name, which at first was ‘IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence, until Interbarnd was hired to come up with a name catchier than what it was. Once WIFI was brought up in the meeting, Phil Belanger, a founding member of the WIFI alliance, liked and kept the name. Then, as time went on, the first WIFI logo was presented as a yin-yang logo to show the product's interoperability, which was a genius idea for the logo.