David Robert Filo

David Filo, a native of Moss Bluff, Louisiana, attended Tulane University’s undergraduate program in computer engineering.

He was a scholarship student and a Dean’s Honor Scholar while at Tulane. He graduated summa cum laude and was named Tulane’s “top graduate” of 1988.

He later enrolled in Stanford’s master’s program in electrical engineering. Completing his master’s degree, he opted to stay at Stanford and try for his PhD in electrical engineering.

One day David Filo and his friend Jerry Yang were bored, so they decided to play around with the Internet. They found some good Websites. But there was so much information on the Internet! So they developed a way to find and keep track of all their favorite Websites. First they had long lists of Websites.

Later on, they separated them into categories. Filo and Yang wrote software using Tcl/TK and Perl scripts that allowed them to group their bookmarks into subject areas. Even these started to become big again, so they separated the categories into more groups. In the beginning, they called their new system is "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." Later, David and Jerry changed the name of "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" to "Yahoo!".

In April 1995, Yahoo!". was funded by Sequoia Capital with an investment of about $2 million and it went on public in April 1996, it headquarter is situated in Sunnyvale, CA.

Filo serves as a key technologist, directing the technical operations behind the company's global network of Web properties. He is credited with helping build Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands.
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History and invention of internet

The internet was created by a collection of visionaries and executed by hundred of individuals whose contributions helped develop the technology.

In the late 1960s the US Department of Defense fearful of the intentions and capabilities of the enemies, created a distributed network that linked military computers together.

During 1940s and early 1950s, many of the graduate students and scientists at MIT and Lincoln Laboratory gained the preliminary experience necessary to create network computers. One of the engineers from Lincoln was Lawrence Roberts, who later became a founding father of the internet.

The first experimental network using internet-like technology involved four supercomputers and was built in 1969.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet) was set up in 1969 and was one of the world's first operational packet switching networks. It evolved into several innovations in the early 1970s such as e-mail, a file transfer protocol that allows data to be sent in bulk and remote connecting service for network computers. As the project grew during the next decade, students were gained access to ARPAnet as hundreds of college and university networks were connected to it.

Starting in 1972, hundreds and then thousands of early users began to discover electronic mail as a new basis for communication.

In 1986, the NSF (National Science Foundation) launched the NSFNET backbone, a high speed network connection between six supercomputer centers running across the United States.

Within nine years, The NFSNET backbone grew from 6 nodes at 56 kbs to 21 nodes at 45 mbs, connecting 50,000 networks on all seven continents. In 1995 NSF turned the management of the World Wide Web portion of the internet over a group of public company.

The word internet entered the common lexicon in or about November 4, 1988 when many large American newspaper first mentioned the network in their coverage of computer.
History and invention of internet

World Wide Web

It all started in 1989. The place was the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

While working at CERN, a computer programmer name Tim Berners-Lee, came up with a revolutionary idea. He was trying to join the hypertext with the Internet, which eventually led to the new creation. He called his invention the World Wide Web.

Berners-Lee had been working on a key problem facing CERN in the late 1980s. This international center had a large permanent staff and many visiting scientists, and it was a challenge to keep track of people, computer, documents and database.

Further, it lacked an effective way to share information among scientists. Berners-Lee solution to this problem was the invention of the World Wide Web.

Tim Berners-Lee also invented the first Web server and named it httpd. By 1991, the world’s first Web site was presented online.

His invention has greatly changed the way people do business, as millions of Americans now use the Web for all kinds of purchases, research and other functions.

To make sure that the World Wide Web remains an open source product. The World Wide Web Consortium declared that the World Wide Web is a royalty free technology.
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