The history of Internet

Thèmes abordés

History of Internet, Internet, interconnected computer networks, worldwide

Résumé du document

Brief Definition : Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that links several billions devices worldwide. In easy words, Internet is a mean of communication that enable the world to be connected through a network.
It revolutionized the world of communication and the computers like nothing before.
In our todays societies, Internet became a daily used media and widespread information structure: We use it for work, research, social purposes/issues etc.

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[...] And in second part we have the magazine LesEchos which has him an optimistic vision of the future of internet and which presents the forum Netexplo which presents 100 bigger innovations of the world about some of them shall allow to be the internet of tomorrow - BRCK the brick which wants to connect the planet. Knowing that two thirds of the inhabitants of globes still have no access has Internet, this BRCK project has the merit to be easy and fast. A small brick which would allow to connect 3G or 4G in any country and which would adapt in infrastructure local. With a single SIM card she could connect 20 devices it is a start-up who come from Kenya. - Wibbitz who transforms the text into video. [...]

[...] It was the web which made the consumer media attentive to Internet. And in 1990, ARPANET disappeared to 2005 : Originally the Internet served to interconnect laboratories engaged in government research, and since 1994 it has been expanded to serve millions of users and a multitude of purposes in all over the world. We notice that since 1995, the sale of PC is superior at the sale of TV. During we are making our own research, the number of computers connected to the Internet, the network of networks, is increasing. [...]

[...] The following year, in July, Lawrence G. Roberts improved the possibilities opened by Tomlinson and has developed the first software for listing, read selectively, archive, reply or forward an e-mail. He has invented the electronic messaging, the main use of the network in the early twenty-first century to : Creation of Microsoft by Bill gates and Paul Allen. Today, Window is a compagny, especially known for it's software, for its tool of development, for it's video games, and also for its internet services : Law is created for to make sure the respect of personal informations. [...]

[...] Two parts explain their forecasts. As Pew Forum which is an American think tank which submitted a report having the notices of more than 1400 experts of internet known for their look sharpened. It explain his forecasts of internet for 2025 The net threats these experts fear: actions by nation-states to maintain security and political control will lead to more blocking, filtering, segmentation, and balkanization of the internet. Trust will evaporate in the wake of revelations about governement and corporate surveillance and likely greater surveillance in the future. [...]

[...] The fist proper start of the internet was when packet switched networks appeared such as CYCLADES, (french research network) or ARPANET (used by the American Army) which started to develop protocols for internetworking (where seperate networks could be joined together) 1965-1975 : ARPANET is the first network to packet transfer developed in 1969 by the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in the United-States, regardless of any military objective; this project has two purposes, to more easily share resources and data and to allow connecting different universities together: The Stanford Institute The University of California at Los Angeles; The University of California, Santa Barbara University of Utah The network expands to include 23 computers in 1971 and 111 in 1977. The ARPANET is considered as the precursor of the Internet network, with some fundamental features of the current network: A network nodes could be destroyed without affecting its operation; Communication between machines was done without intermediate central server; Basic protocols. In France at the same time, similar software was created, Cyclades by Louis Pouzin. In collaboration with Arpanet, Louis Pouzin can introduce additional functionality and simplify others, and offers more flexibility and a greater opportunity for interactivity. [...]