A Free Net
The Internet has revolutionized the communication world in unprecedented ways.
It allows worldwide broadcasting, global distribution of information, and it is a medium
for the interaction and communication of individuals without regard for geographic
location.
Thirty years ago, America?s principal Cold War think-tank, the RAND
Corporation, faced a strategic dilemma: how could the United States authorities
successfully communicate after a nuclear war? The solution was a network of individual
nodes, computer units that would send and receive information in a random manner. If
one area of nodes were destroyed the message would bounce between the others. After
the Cold War ended, and the threat of nuclear war subsided, the potential for this
?internet? was realized. Of course, in the beginning, it was small and difficult to make use
of, but as more corporations and different social groups began to possess powerful
computers, the network grew and became more useful. As with the growth of fax
machines in the early 1990?s, the Internet was only practical if someone else had one to
communicate with.
Today, the Internet has moved out of its original base in the military and research
institutions and into schools and learning centers, public libraries and commercial sectors.
It is now a vast system of millions of computers, not only corporate and military, but
personal as well. The Internet can be used for the purpose of gathering information and
communicating. The Internet enables users to surpass the distance barrier and
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communicate with anyone on the face of the planet, provided that they have access to a
computer.
According to recent research, the world?s Internet population is only expanding.
By the year 2002, it is estimated that 490 million people will have Internet access. At the
end of this year, the United States will have 135.7 million users - that?s 36.2% of the total
world users (CyberAtlas).
Lately there has been another addition to the usefulness of the Internet, the sales
of products and services. These transactions are known as e-commerce, the ?e? standing
for electronic. In 1998 a three-year moratorium banned the taxing of Internet use and on-
line spending. Currently, a new law is looking to extend this ban another five years.
There are currently 7,500 state and local tax systems throughout the United
States. These numbers could be significantly increased if state and local governments were
able to tax e-commerce. On-line businesses would be buried in costly paperwork trying to
meet the terms of conflicting tax clauses. Under the current system, it is difficult to
determine the locality from which an order was placed and it is unclear where an Internet
The history of the internet takes us back to the pioneering of the network and the development of capable technologies. The explosion of the internet’s popularity of the 1990’s was large and dramatic, boosting our economy and then helped to bring it into a major recession. One can only hope that the explosion becomes organized and slightly standardized in the interest of the general public. Despite all of these conjectures and speculations only time can tell the future of the largest network in the world.
What we know today as the Internet began as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project in 1969, which was designed to connect several research databases across the country. However, until the end of 1991, the advances were almost completely technical, as the goals set by those responsible in its growth were beyond what the hardware was capable of providing. In 1988, the Internet began to receive attention in the popular press, when the first documented computer virus was released at Cornell University. 1991 marked the beginning of the transition of the Internet as we know it today, with the National Science Foundation’s reinterpretation of its Acceptable Use Policy to allow for commercial traffic across its network, the development of the first graphic interfaces, the formation of the Internet Society, and the formation of ECHO (East Coast Hang Out), one of the first publicly available online communities.
four million people on the Internet in the country, up from just one or two
The history of the internet shows that the internet is not a new medium. The internet was initially created in the 1960's to as a way for the United States to stay connected in case of a nuclear fallout due to the possible consequences of the Cold War. F...
Advances in technology have encouraged progression of the internet and have sometime been a drive of development. The advert of broadband has allowed communications to be faster, which has facilitated the transfer of larger file such as sound and video. This ability marked the beginning of the modern era of sites such as YouTube and iTunes. When we look at the side of the internet, you can see its still changing, constantly evolving Internet into every sphere of life and every scientific field. The reason for this rapid development is that today's technology speeds up the whole time. Not so long ago we had the premiere of the new Windows 7 operating system, and already there are further news about Windows 8 which is to eliminate mistakes and errors that have occurred in Windows 7 and bring new interface. In retrospect, Windows XP users have to wait very long for the next heir of the operating system that appeared after a few years, I'm talking about Windows Vista. And now all hastened, "barely" released Windows 7, and is already talking about Windows 8 which will be released shortly. As the technology develops very quickly, there is no way to stop technological progress on the internet. New ideas replace old, there are more and better ideas to make the Internet more convenient for users. If everything will go as fast track, a few years created the possibility of implanting a chip in the brain that allows access to the Internet without a computer or other devices
National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet.” September 2001. 21 February 2003 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/html/Chapter8.htm
The birth of the Internet was in 1962, it even precedes the invention of the term "internet". The world's first 10,000 computers are primal, even though they are costly. They have limited magnetic core memory, and programming each unit is not even close to easy. Locally, data communication that uses the phone is a monopoly of AT&T. The "Picturephone" of 1939, exhibited once more at the New York...
...ng that he or she has absolutely no past knowledge of. I not only learned what Internet2 is, but I learned a lot about the current Internet and how it actually functions. To me, the Internet has always just been out there. I log on, and then I have immediate access to pretty much anything I desire. Now that I know and understand what gives me that access and how I get it, I will never look at the Internet or World Wide Web the same way. Just as e-mail and the World Wide Web are legacies of earlier investments in academic, industry and federal research networks, the legacy of Internet2 will be to expand the possibilities of the broader Internet. I believe that within the next four to five years, the world will see and have access to the use of an entirely different and advanced Internet due to the developments made by Internet2 and its actively working members.
government agency. With a browser and access to the Internet, you can order a pizza,
Most of the Internet regulation is imposed by the Government in an effort to protect the best interest of the general public and is concerned with some form of censorship.
The 20th century has been a technological marvel. We have advanced more in the 20th century than we have during any other one-hundred year term in recorded history. This is due to a number of reasons. One of which is the early conflicts of the century. World War I and World War II changed the world forever. During these global conflicts, countries developed advanced weapons. They also developed advanced communications and other technologies. The Internet came as a result of the military’s efforts in World War II, and the fear of a nuclear conflict.
It is crazy to believe that such a brilliant invention like the internet has only been around for about sixty years. The internet began with the use of huge electronic computers in the 1950’s but the use of “telegraphing” and the general concept of the internet came in to play way before the cyber world was invented. The whole concept of the internet is to send data from point A to point B and this concept was being practiced way before dial-up internet on a Dell computer was in the picture. Before individuals had access to ...
The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The Internet enables communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations. The Internet is a computer application that connects tens of thousands of interconnected computer networks that include 1.7 million host computers around the world. The basis of connecting all these computers together is by the use of ordinary telephone wires. Users are then directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There are many reasons why the Internet is important these reasons include: The net adapts to damage and error, data travels at 2/3 the speed of light on copper and fiber, the internet provides the same functionality to everyone, the net is the fastest growing technology ever, the net promotes freedom of speech, the net is digital, and can correct errors. Connecting to the Internet cost the taxpayer little or nothing, since each node was independent, and had to handle its own financing and its own technical requirements.
The internet is a fascinating example of an immense technological inflection which gained ground no more than three decades ago. People then had a way to connect to each other and make information available on the web on a small scale. Nowadays, the internet is ubiquitous and is now breeding ground of technological inflections. Ranging from social media to video games, an astounding amount of society has some dependency on the internet and as it remains, the internet will have an infinite number of implications. The notion of connectivity has never been more available as it is now -- 3.2 billion users and continually growing. There are many examples of these internet based technical inflections. This summary will cover some examples of
In 1937 the electronic computer was born. Computers were in 1943 to break “the unbreakable” German Enigma codes. 1951 introduced the computer commercially. However, it wasn’t until around 1976 when the Apple II was introduced and it was immediately adopted by high schools, colleges, and homes. This was the first time that people from all over really had an opportunity to use a computer. Since that time micro processing chips have been made, the World Wide Web has been invented and in 1996 more than one out of every three people have a computer in their home, and two out of every three have one at the office.