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Art/Design
Undergraduate 3
04/26/2010

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1969
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ARPANET, commissioned by the dept of denfense begins operating
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1670
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first cross-country link between UCLA and BBN
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1983
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Domain name system created. hosts surpass 1,000
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1984
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Apple introduces Mac
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1985
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Microsoft releases Windows 1.0
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1987
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Hosts surpasses 10,000
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1989
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host surpasses 100,000
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1990
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ARPANET ceases to exist. WWW introduced, using HTML. First commerical provider of dial-up access to the internet begins operations
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1992
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hosts suprpasses 1 million
phrase surfing the internet is coined
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1993
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mosaic is released, the first web broswer
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1994
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shopping on the internet starts,
first banner ads appear in hotwire.com
mosaic becomes netscape, browser free for non-commercial
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1995
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online dialup companies start providing internet access
microsoft releases internet explorer
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1998
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2 million domain name is registered
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2000
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10 million sites worldwide in feb, by sept there are 20 million, 361 use the internet worldwide
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2005
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youtube is launched
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2006
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more than 439 million computers have a registered ip address.
92 million sites worldwide
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2007
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itunes downloads reach 1 billion mark
google becomes most visited website
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2009
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out of 6.7 billion people worldwide, 24% use the internet.
a 342% growth since 2000. in the us, 75% use the internet.
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HTML
Definition
hyper text mark up language
display language, web browsers translate it into web pages
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XML
Definition
extensive markup language
set of rules for writing markup languages and encoding digital documents.
XHTML, RSS.
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CSS
Definition
cascading style sheet
a document that an html document links to for formatting information
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hypertext
Definition
link in an html document to another file or webpage
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Javascript
Definition
scripting language by netscape. microsoft's version is jscript.
can be used to create interactive or animated page elements
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Flash
Definition
adobe application for creating interactive or animated page elements,
users must have flashplayer installed
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Ajax
Definition
Asynchronous javascript and xml
creates web applications that run on clients computers. ie, fliker, gmail, google maps
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Java
Definition
object oriented language, can do almost anything to a regular computer program can do
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Applet
Definition
small java program that downloads to user's computer
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CGI
Definition
common gateway interface
a program run on a server system by the client,
creates a gateway to access the program and run it, can be written in
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Flex
Definition
adobe application, similar to Flash, for creating interactive elements that can link to a database. plays on flashplayer, as do flash documents
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SWF
Definition
the file type that flash documents generate. this is the file that actually gets placed on a web page
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RSS
Definition
really simple syndication, xml based web-content distribution format. requires feed reader, a program that converts xml code to easily read format
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Widget
Definition
GUI (graphical user interface) element, such as a button, scrollbar, etc
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API
Definition
Application programming interface, set of rules for software programs to work with each other
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TCP/IP
Definition
Transmission control/ internet protocol
set of protocols that operating systems must obey to access the internet
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URL
Definition
Uniform resource locator, system for assigning addresses to indiviual websites, each site has both an alphabetical and a numerical address
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