World Wide WebThe World Wide Web is often confused with the Internet, but the Internet and the World Wide Web are not exactly the same thing. The hardware and software infrastructure of the Internet provides a global communication system between computers. The Web is one of the services that is a network of interconnected documents connected by hyperlinks and URLs that is communicated over the Internet. The Internet was born in the 1950s, when the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) began looking for ways to address the survivability of defense communications networks in the event of a nuclear attack. The result was ARPANET, a defense-oriented computer networking system. By the 1980s, the network had expanded to include not only military communication but also the sharing of scientific data by academic institutions that had been added to the network because of their defense-related research. Eventually, the two aspects of the network were split for security reasons, with the military portion becoming MILNET, also under the Department of Defense, and the civilian portion becoming NSFNET, under the National Science Foundation. NSFNET was eventually opened for commercial use and connections with other developing networks around the world. Tim Berners-Lee is considered the father of the World Wide Web (WWW). While working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) he started a project called ENQUIRE. INQUIRE made it possible to create typed links between different information nodes within a single file and across file boundaries in a file system. (Freie Universität Berlin) With INQUIRE, CERN employees were able to communicate and share documents with each other. Based on his work with ENQUIRE, Berners-Lee was able to develop Hype… the medium of paper… like images that change when you hover over them. JavaScript can be considered as a set of programs needed to run a particular application. Enabling and disabling JavaScript allows you to view the web page with more or less functionality. In some cases it is possible that without JavaScript it is not possible to display some aspects of the web page, although this may not be absolutely necessary.ReferencesNSF. (n.d.). Mosaic: the original browser. Retrieved from http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nsf0050/internet/mosaic.htmFreie Universität Berlin. (n.d.). The Creation of the World Wide Web. Retrieved from http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS01/hc/www/www2.htmlQuinStreet Inc. (2014). HTTP. Retrieved from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HTTP.htmlMitchell, B. (2014). URL. Retrieved from http://compnetworking.about.com/od/internetaccessbestuses/g/bldef-url.htm