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This 5 page paper traces the origin of the Internet to the present. The Internet is discussed in general terms and its impact on society is explored. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the world. Prior to the advent of the Internet, people would communicate through the postal system and telephone, for the most part. Video phones were the wave of the future,
but with the new technology, and the availability of the Internet, the future is here. A recent criticism, and the subject of late night talk show jokes, is that
Al Gore had taken credit for the development of the Internet. In reality, the development of the large connection of computers is something which happened almost by accident, and certainly
something that more than one man is responsible for. Many people should get credit for the creation of the Internet, something which began in 1969 as a simple network of
university computers (Isaacson, 1999). It began to become popular in 1974 when Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn created a protocol that enabled all computers on the network to
transmit to one another (1999). In other words, a language emerged which would enable all computers to talk to one another, making the linkage between the machines easier.
A companion protocol was devised by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 and that began what is know as the World Wide Web; the web simplified and popularized navigation on
the Internet (1999). The concept that anyone in the world can publish information and have it instantly available to someone else, whoever chooses to access it, is revolutionary (1999).
From the time the Internet was born, through the present day, things have changed a great deal. At the beginning, the browsers were more complex to use,
slower, and the computers themselves were not the lightening fast machines that they are today. While people were somewhat interested in new technology, there would be only a few lay
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