A short history of the internet
December 30th 2006 00:03
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Born of the need for successful communication after such a disaster as Nuclear War,when switching and wiring would be irretrievably damaged, The RAND proposal was implemented in 1964.
It was designed to transcend its own unreliability.
A haphazard system of delivery would be very rugged.
The nodes of this system would be by supercomputers which were used for research and development projects. This idea was established in 1969.
By 1971, 15 internodes were successfully in operation. By 1972, 37 were available.
Early in 1977 other networks had become involved.
In the 70's and 80's networks were in the public domain.
"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 more, the merrier. Like the phone network, the computer network became steadily more valuable as it embraced larger and larger territories of people and resources"
Nowadays there are tens of thousands of nodes on the internet and we have the world wide web
Computers now sell for less than $2000 and are accessible to people all over the world.
Now all you need is a computer, a modem and a telephone line.
"Network literacy," like "computer literacy" will feature as a necessary part of your life.
The full text and author of this article is available via the attached link.
Full article and author
It would be interesting to know how it works and I'll include that on another post.
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Comment by Adele
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The history of the internet is interesting. I'm looking forward to the next article.