In the early 1990s, the first address exhaustion crisis hit the internet, the solution was CIDR (which we still use) it sustains the internet by making use of IP’s (32-bit address space). The IP’s will only last for a few more years, so to make the solution last longer, they are look at IPv6 (128-bit address space)
Still, the WWW (world wide web) has been one of the best internet developments; lately. The thought of hypertext has been around for awhile; but in 1989 a team at CERN (European Centre for Particle Research) in Switzerland developed protocols for transferring hypertext, and was enhanced in the 1990’s. It was enhanced by NCSA (National Centre for Supercomputing Applications) at the University of Illinois. The result was a graphical, point-and-click hypertext browser, it made the internet easier and a ‘explosion’ in Web sites.
Blog 3 – IP’s and hypertext
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