Web Science/Web Architecture and Web History

The goal is to understand the difference between the Internet and the Web and also understand the historical development of the internet and web technologies.

historical moments

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w:History_of_the_World_Wide_Web and w:World_Wide_Web#History could be of help

important people

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include this section? whom to include? Only technology people or also people that created commercial or open source products?

military phase

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  • arpanet

research phase

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pre web

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  • goopher
  • usenet
  • ...

all pre web internet based technologies that where somewhat similar to the web built on closed architectures which was problematic.

commercial phase

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dot com bubble

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Social web and web 2.0

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