A dot address (sometimes known as a dotted quad address) refers to the notation that expresses the four-byte (32-bit) IP address as a sequence of four decimal numbers separated by dots. Each number represents the binary value of one of four bytes. Look at this Internet address, for example: 205.245.172.72.
In 1974, after many failed attempts, a paper published by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, also known as âthe fathers of the Internet,â resulted in the protocol TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), which by 1978 would become TCP/IP (with the IP standing for Internet Protocol).
The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.  Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),  which oversees the Web's continued dâ¦evelopment, and is also the  founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. His browser was called  WorldWideWeb and later renamed Nexus.