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History of the Internet and the World Wide Web (www)

The Wedding -2011

In 2011 there was a royal wedding

This wedding was the biggest live internet event of history

Prince William wedded Kate, Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster abbey in London, England

Akamai, a major traffic carrier, said that its own record of 1.6 million concurrent live streams during the World Cup was broken

This event nearly crashed the entire internet

Most websites were ready for this event to break traffic record

This event ran smoothly on YouTube but some other websites didn’t have as much luck

The Protest - In 2012

In 2012 a major protest occurred

It was over Congressional support for anti-Web piracy measures

The protest included a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia site

There were two bills the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP act in the Senate

The goal of the bills was to stop illegal streaming and downloading of TV shows and movies online

The tech industry was concerned that the bills will give media companies to much power to shut down websites

The Internet Hall Of Fame– 2012

The Internet Society (ISoc) was founded in 1992

The Isoc is an international, non-profit organization

The Isoc headquarter are in Reston, Virginia

Its mission is to promote the open development

Later in 2012 they created the Internet Hall Of Fame

Al Gore helped create the Internet Hall of Fame by helping fund it

The Coding Error - 2014

In April of 2014 a coding error was discovered inOpenSSl

This means that encryption software that makes transactions between a computer and a remote secure, makes users vulnerable to having their personal information stolen

Millions of banks, Internet commerce companies, email services, government sites, and social media sites rely on OpenSSL to conduct secure transactions

This coding error was made in 2012

Computer security experts encourage you to change your passwords

They don’t know how this happened, why this happened, or who would have done this

Internet Users In the World

All these stats are from 2014

Asia has 45.7% of the online users in the world

Europe comes second with 19.2%

Thirdly, comes Latin America/The Caribbean with10.5%

Next, There is North America and the have about 10.2% of the internet users

Africa comes next with 9.8%

Middle East has about 3.7% of the Worlds internet users

Oceania/Australia are last with 0.9% of the worlds Users

An internet user is a person who has access to the internet at his/her house

The reason they created this was to get the stats and evaluate them