Information Renaissance
According to my view one of the most important of Information Renaissance was the invention of Internet. Internet had its base coming over a long time, which started busting over the recent years. The initiation to internet was brought about by Defence Advance Research Project Agency, a part of United States Department of Defence. Vinton Cerf is often referred to as father of Internet because of his contribution to DARPA.
Vinton Cerf was never slowed down by his hearing impairment. He was well respected even as a student during his higher education. Because of his early interest in computers, Dr. Cerf decided to take summer jobs that would enable him to indulge his interests. He worked at North American Aviation and Rocketdyne to get a good base of the computing technologies of the time. While working at these companies he attended Stanford University to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. He received this degree in 1965. After graduating from Stanford, Cerf took a position with IBM for about two years. Realizing that he wanted a better background in computers still, he left IBM and attended UCLA for degrees in computer science. Cerf received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in 1970 and 1972 respectively from UCLA.
As a graduate student at UCLA, Vinton Cerf was given the opportunity to work on research projects prescribed by the Advanced Research projects Agency or ARPA. The first of these projects was to develop what came to be known as the “Snuper Computer”. This machine was designed primarily to monitor programs that were running on another computer. In 1968, Cerf was one of the lucky graduate students to be chosen as a researcher for the ARPANET where he accomplished the initiation of Internet.
Tim Berner Lee, graduate Lee,graduate of Oxford University, England. In 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while he was working at CERN, the European Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs which is now URL, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
Marc Andreesen was a student and part-time assistant at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois when the World Wide Web began to take off. His position at NCSA allowed him to become very familiar with the Internet. Like just about everyone else who was involved with the Internet, he also became familiar with the Web. In 1992 Marc along with Bina worked tirelessly and designed a new browser called Mosaic. They called their new browser Mosaic. It was much more sophisticated graphically than other browsers of the time. In early 1993, Mosaic was posted for download on NCSA's servers. It was immediately popular. Within weeks thousands of people had downloaded the software. Marc after leaving the university went to silicon valley and after getting help from Jim Clark started Netscape corporation. They designed a web browser with more usability than that of the Mosaic.
The field of Internet’s World Wide Web has achieved a lot of distinctions and it is expected to reach a lot of unexpected things. This proves Internet, integral part of Information Renaissance.