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who invented it?
Nikola Tesla toyed with the idea of a “world wireless system” in the early 1900s, and visionary thinkers like Paul Otlet and Vannevar Bush conceived of mechanized, searchable storage systems of books and media in the 1930s and 1940s. Still, the first practical schematics for the Internet would not arrive until the early 1960s, when MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers. -
origins
Writing in reference to a mailing list invitation to attend the 35th anniversary event, Bob Taylor explained. "In February of 1966 I initiated the ARPAnet project. I was Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) from late '65 to late '69. There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me. Numerous untruths have been disseminated about events surrounding the origins of the ARPAnet. Here are -
invention of the internet
The internet started more than 50 years ago as a weapon during the Cold War -
brief history of the internet
The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location. -
internet in 1969
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Evolution of the Internet
The origins of the Internet date back nearly 40 years, with the U.S. military's funding of a research network dubbed Arpanet in 1969. Since then, the Internet has undergone more than just a name change. -
History of the Internet
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internet's first words
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internet history
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How Government did and didn't invent the Internet
Also factual: DARPA was where Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf invented TCP/IP, the plumbing that makes the Internet possible. Crovitz mentions TCP/IP and Cerf in passing without connecting them to DARPA, which is a little like writing a history of World War II that discusses Dwight Eisenhower only parenthetically and without noting who his employer was. -
So, who owns the internet?
A lawsuit in federal court may decide whether Web access remains open and neutral -
Who Makes it Work?
Internet Ecosystem is the term used to describe the organizations and communities that help the Internet work and evolve. -
How Much is the Internet of Everything Worth
Chambers believes the Internet of everything, also known as the Internet of things, will create $19 trillion (yes, that's with a "t") in economic benefit and value over the next decade. -
How much is your attention on the Internet really worth?
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/the-future-of-morality-at-every-internet-users-fingertips/400520/For much of the modern, advertising-driven Internet, attention is money. Whether a publisher, search engine, or social platform, the business model is fundamentally the same: The attention of users is aggregated and then sold to advertisers who want to bring a message to that audience. -
The Internet
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Who Owns the Internet?
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evolution of the internet timetable
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internt history
This Internet Timeline begins in 1962, before the word 'Internet' is invented. The world’s 10,000 computers are primitive, although they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They have only a few thousand words of magnetic core memory, and programming them is far from easy. -
first computer with internet
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early pc network
At the same time as the academic and research communities were creating a network for scientific purposes, a lot of parallel activity was going on elsewhere building computer networks as well.