World Wide Web

The internet came into being when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite in 1957. Military personnel became worried about missile attacks from the sky, and created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1958.
Lawrence Roberts was doing research about networks and helped develop the ARPANet network that went live for the first time in October 1969 and was replaced in 1983 with the TCP/IP protocol that we still use.
In 1992 Internet access was offered to the general public for the first time and exploded because people found they could easily connect through personal computers and stay in touch with friends and family. It was easy to get pictures, videos and sound from anywhere in the world while sitting in your own home.
There are no real governing bodies and although the Internet allows people to get anything from anywhere, it is also home to criminals, pedophiles, and many other means to decay the morals and values that people used to cherish. That’s why it is so important for parents to install parameters to protect their children. The problem then becomes that most children are so adept at learning new things, and they get around the blocks.
The Internet works by connecting to other computers with translators known as web browsers, to connect to servers around the world, of which there are millions. We use web addresses to find pages and links to other pages until we find the information we are looking for. Some people become frustrated and give up, while others become so addicted that they spend all their free time searching for information.
It is a very useful tool for parents helping their children with research, for students to research from the comfort of their homes, for getting recipes or patterns, finding where the stores are that carry the product you want or for shopping from your home. These things are great for the disabled or the person that never has enough time.
“Vannevar Bush wrote the first description of uses for information technology, Norbert Wiener invented the field of Cybernetics, focusing on the use of technology, The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference emphasized the consequences, and Marshall McLuhan made the idea of a global village part of our culture.”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_some_information_about_the_invention_of_the_internet
http://www.letusfindout.com/when-was-the-internet-invented
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii.htm
I have had personal experience with two teachers and their use of the Internet. Carol Golliher teachers English classes at VVC and as a student in her class, we had to use the Internet services for library research and also for research on class projects. She talked about her use of the Internet to verify plagiarism in school paper research projects.
I also attended a Journalism conference in Fontana during the spring 2009 semester. Many of the educators in those classrooms talked of their online networking for the students that seems very similar to what you are requesting from us as students in your class. One of the teachers made her students follow both “facebook” and “twitter” in their course of online education.