Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American
engineer and science administrator, known for his work on
analog computing, his political role in the development of the
atomic bomb, and the idea of the
memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the
World Wide Web. A leading figure in the development of the
military–industrial complex and the
military funding of science in the United States, Bush was a prominent policymaker and public intellectual ("the patron saint of American science") during World War II and the ensuing
Cold War. Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of democratic
technocracy and of the centrality of technological innovation and entrepreneurship for both economic and geopolitical security.
The following are images from various internet-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1The
NeXT Computer used by
Tim Berners-Lee at
CERN became the first Web server. (from
History of the World Wide Web)
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Image 2Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 4T3 NSFNET Backbone, c. 1992 (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 6First Internet demonstration, linking the
ARPANET,
PRNET, and
SATNET on November 22, 1977 (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 7info.cern.ch, the first website, in 2025 (from
History of the World Wide Web)
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Image 9Number of Internet hosts worldwide: 1969–2019
Source:
Internet Systems Consortium. (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 10Where the WEB was born (from
History of the World Wide Web)
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Image 11Satellite Internet access via
VSAT in Ghana (from
Internet access)
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Image 12The "message block", designed by
Paul Baran in 1962 and refined in 1964, is the first proposal of a
data packet. (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 15Broadband affordability in 2011
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from
Internet access)
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Image 161997 advertisement in
State Magazine by the US
State Department Library for sessions introducing the then-unfamiliar Web (from
History of the World Wide Web)
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Image 17The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (in kbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from
Internet access)
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Image 18Internet Connectivity Access layer (from
Internet access)
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Image 19Wi-Fi logo (from
Internet access)
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Image 20Map of the
TCP/IP test network in February 1982 (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 22BBN Technologies TCP/IP Internet map of early 1986 (from
History of the Internet)
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Image 23The corridor where the World Wide Web was born, on the ground floor of building No. 1 at CERN (from
History of the World Wide Web)
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Image 24Wi-Fi range diagram (from
Internet access)
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Image 26Stamped envelope of
Russian Post issued in 1993 with stamp and graphics dedicated to first Russian
underwater digital optic cable laid in 1993 by
Rostelecom from
Kingisepp to
Copenhagen (from
History of the Internet)
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