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Galactic Network
In August 1962, J.C.R. Licklider of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) had proposed the idea of connecting socially which was called the "Galactic Network" concept. He imagined a future were everyone had easy access to what we know now as the internet. -
Packets
In 1965 Leonard Kleinrock had created a way of sending information form one place to another this method is called "packet switching". This is where data is broken down into blocks and is sent down in its own path. Without this the ARPAnet( the governments computer network) would be very easy for enemies to attack.(Ihttps://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet) -
The Network grows
In 1969 four computers were connected to the ARPAnet, there were only two computers connected which was the UCLA and Standford. Then in 1971 the university of Hawaii was added and then networks at London's University College, and Royal Radar Establishment in Norway was all added. By the end of the 1970s a scientists Vinton Cerf had solved the problem and had created a way for all the computers in the world to communicate without a problem it was called transmission Control Protocol.(History) -
The World Web
The TPC created a new worldwide network and through the 80s scientists used it to send flies and data form a computer to another one. In the same year a programmer named Berners-Lee introduced the World Web and created the internet as we know it today -
University of Illinois
after the 80s the internet changed and updated. In 1992 a group of student studying in the University of Illinois had created a browser name Mosaic. Mosaic allowed its users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time ever and it also navigated using scrollbars and clickable links. In the same year some people decided that the web could be used for commercial purposes. This made ads popular and allowed companies to set up their own websites
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Communication
in 1993 the number of websites had reached 600 and big people started using it too for example the White House and United Nations. Numerous computers connected to the NSFNET and grew form 2000 in 1985 to over 2 million in 1993. In 1994 the Netscape communication was alive and starts allowing people to communicate.
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The Browser War
Since website started appearing on the internet so did the browser war. This war was between players of Microsoft and Netscape. Then in 1997 Netfliex was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a company that send user DVDs by mail. Then in 1998 the Google engine was born changing the way users engage with the internet. -
Internet Protocol
At the same time the internet protocol version 6 was introduce and allowed the internet to grow in the future. Even after Netscape was popular for years AOL buys it. -
The vulnerability
There were only 361 million internet users in 2000. These users were using websites such as Yahoo and eBay when these websites were hit by a large scale service attack it pointed out the vulnerability of the internet and if not secured properly could cause chaos. people were taking advantage of this technology and were copyrighting materials so the federal judge had shut down Napster to stop all these materials form being shared online (https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html) -
The SQL slammer
A perpetrator known as SQL slammer, Sapphire and MS SQL worm had launched an attack on the weekend that spread world wide in just 10 minutes. The warm quickly spread across the globe, making the Internet very slow and difficult. It hit South Korea the hardest, where most of the nation couldn’t have access to the website for 20 hours (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-day-the-internet-broke/ and https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html) -
The popularity of the internet
in 2004, the figures of people using the Internet and jumped more than 10 Fold since June 2000 because citizens had realized they could do more and more online.( https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2005/03/06/part-2-the-role-of-the-internet-in-2004/) On February 4, 2004 Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg lunches a social media named Facebook and by the next day over a thousand people had registered (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/facebook-launches-mark-zuckerberg) -
Social Media
YouTube is launched on December 15 2005 and Reddit was launched June 2005. As we see now this are very popular websites that are visited every single day. A year later in 2006 Twitter was also launched then its founder, Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. (https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html ) At the same time the tweet was happening AOL had changed their business model relying on advertising to bring in profit. -
Anniversary of the internet
2009 marks the 40th year anniversary of the internet. As it continued to grow bigger and bigger, in 2010 Facebook had reached 400 million active users, while socials media sites like Instagram and Pinterest were launched. As years past we see more social media platforms invented and added to the numerous sites on the internet. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html -
The SOPA act
in 2012 more than 115,000 websites protest the SOPA (stop online privacy act) on January 18, 2012. SOPA had proposed the United Sates a bill to expand its law enforcement to fight online copyright and online trafficking. https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill This bill was pushed away which was helpful for technology companies like google, Wikipedia this is a victory for websites like YouTube that depends on user generated content. -
Government and Citizen relationship
2013 was when the government and citizens relationship got even more shaky. A former CIA Edward Snowday had revealed documents on the Washington Post publisher and it was exposed that the government had been surveilling everyone connected to the internet . This surveillance program watched all its citizens communication if they were a criminal or just a regular person. https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/edward-snowden-discloses-u-s-government-operations -
Smart Assistance
2016 is when the internet started getting more advanced. This year is when Google Assistance was introduced and when the internet was connected with the word "smart" after google assistance there was Alexa, Siri and Cortana. All these voice activated assistance has shown an advanced in human technology than what it was back in the 1980s. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html -
Advancement
By 2018 there were many changes in the internet and the way it was being used. social wise everything had grew form something as small as a influencer to companies advertising their product all over. Everything was online companies and people started messaging, adverting, communicating with each other, and was named as a digital world.https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html -
5G Internet
2019 is when the 5th generation was invented (5G) allowing internet to be quicker to travel around the world. (https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html). This unlocked another door to the advancement of technology but at the same it opens hundreds of millions of problems for human interactions, -
Growth
2021 everyone was on the internet precisely 4.66 billion people were able to connect with the internet which was more than half of the global population. This internet situation went form 2 computers sending a message to half of the global population talking on a little screen.https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html -
Internet Presently
presently the internet is a giant computer network with billions of machines linking together. As the future goes technology mostly internet will get more and more advanced and popular.https://www.livescience.com/internet
