ABSTRACT

The developments about the Internet have been key to the develop­ ment of the World Wide Web. Internet started out as a research project funded by the United States Department of Defense. Much of the work was carried out in the 1970s. It was at this time that there were numer­ ous developments with networking. We began to see various network­ ing protocols and products emerge. In addition standards groups such as International Standards Organzation proposed a layered stack of proto­ cols for networking. The Internet research resulted in TCP/IP (Trans­ mission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) for transport communica­ tion.