Chapter 2, Problem 1OE

The discussions on internet and web, including their origins, the three generations
of the web, and the most common uses.

Explanation of Solution

Internet is a global network of networks, connecting millions of computers all over the globe forming a comprehensive network that can communicate to each other.

Web also referred as World Wide Web (www) is collection of web pages or information that is accessed via the internet. Web is the collection of HTML elements that are designed to display information as we want them to be.

The origin of web:

The whole infrastructure of Internet and the web began with a simple idea of J. C. R. Licklider, ARPANET. ARPANET was a switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite such as TCP/IP. ARPANET was discovered by U. S. Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), they used this network to connect through different associate members of the organisation for communication and information sharing...