How the Internet Changed the World
Information could only travel as fast as we could physically move it, before the 1960s. How can we relay information across a wide area quickly and reliably? The old way of business is soon to change, thanks to the internet. Connecting the world to a system of unlimited amounts of information will change the way we shop, bank, and pay bills. Making life a little easier. The internet also compiled information for libraries, scientists, and military members. Where will technology take our society?
There were a number of great minds at work. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT created the internet in 1962(Howe). Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections (Howe). Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. In the early development, the internet was called ARPANET. Which came online in 1969 under a contract led by the Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA (Howe). This was not the user friendly internet we know today. E-mail was brought into action sometime in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. He was the first to adopt the “@” symbol. According to Howe, “In 1986, the National Science Foundation funded NSFNet as a cross country 56 Kbps backbone for the Internet.” The first efforts to index the internet was created in 1989. Peter Scott came out with Hytelnet in 1990, which stockpiled information on telnet accessible library catalogs.
In 1991, a user friendly interface was developed by the University of Minnesota. Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics proposed a new protocol for information distribution (Howe). This became the World Wide Web we know today. By 1993 Microsoft came into the picture to create its Microsoft Internet Explorer. The