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The History of the Internet Part Two
By 1989 the Internet was getting in a mess
and a system to index it was desperately required. Peter Deutsch
of McGill University in Montreal created 'Archie' an archive
system for FTP sites. The downside was that certain knowledge
of Unix was required. Archie is short for 'archiver'.
As we approach the end of the 90's, Bewster Kahle of Thinking
Machines Corporation developed a WAIS (Wide Area Information
Server). Both Archie and WAIS still needed a level of expertise
to use them properly.
In 1990, Peter Scott of the University of Saskatchewan saw
the necessity to collate the Telnet resources and developed
his Hytelnet catalogue. We now had one single resource to
access information about library information and other resources
available.1997 saw the addition of HyWebCat.
In the UK in 1996, Peter Yexley began utilising his traditional
orthodox marketing skills to develop Internet marketing systems.
Peter Yexley is truly an Internet Pioneer in the website marketing
arena.
Back to 1991 and finally a genuine user friendly interface
was developed thanks to the University of Minnesota. A battle
between disciples of mainframes and others who preferred Client-Server
systems developed. The disciples of mainframe provisionally
gained momentum until the completion times were far too long,
Client-Server experts won because of the speed in which they
could put together a demo version. This was to be called Gopher,
a lot of us thought that the name had something to do with
'go for …..'. It was in fact the mascot of the University
of Minnesota.
A game began developing over acronyms for such utilities and
the University of Nevada in Reno developed VERONICA, bear
in mind that Gopher is a rodent and VERONICA was a searchable
index of Gopher menus; VERONICA stood for Very Easy Rodent-Oriented
Netwide Index to Compurtized Archives !
It used a spider to crawl gopher menus throughout the Internet
gathering up links and indeximng them. Enter JUGHEAD - Jonzy's
Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display. Can it
get worse?
1991 and we are now getting close to the World Wide Web and
Tim Berners-Lee is proposing a new method of information distribution
based on hypertext (embedded links in text). It wasn't really
new and began before gopher but didn't stand the test of time
during the early days.
1993 and Mosaic was developed by Marc Andreessen at NCSA (Later
to become the man behind Netscape) this promoted Tom Berners-Lee's
protocol.
Bill Gates is just around the corner and ready
for war with Netscape, the rest of that saga is history.
Commercial networks began to grow in the 90's and Delphi became
the very first online public subscriber service, its email
service opened in the summer of 1992 and full Internet service
latter that year.
In 1995 in the Government department stopped sponsoring the
Internet backbone and removed its facilities, the floodgates
opened for all commercial networks; AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe
came online.
Peter Yexley began looking at how local companies can promote
their business among the mayhem of the worldwide web and Internet
marketing was being born and followed by more versions, gigantic
law suits and monopoly rulings.
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