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Introduction. 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.
1 kwi 2011 · The aim of this essay is to outline and analyze milestones in the history of the Internet. As technology advances, it presents new societal and ethical challenges.
HISTORY OF THE INTERNET The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of wide area networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.[1]
HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. What is the Internet? The Internet began in 1969 as a project of the U.S. Department of Defense called ARPANET, or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The goal of this project was to design a nationwide computer network that could withstand major disasters.
progression: from Arpanet to the Internet, then from the Internet of its early adopters to the interest shown in it by the political class leading to the first stages of wider governance, and finally from the Web to its democratisation within the general public in the early 2000s.
The Internet in Question. Andrew Feenberg. The purpose of this chapter is to affirm the democratic potential of the Internet. Affirmation is called for by the context of contemporary critical theory, in which the Internet figures increasingly as the problem rather than the solution to the crisis of democracy.
1945 – Vannevar Bush writes about “memex”, a futuristic, automatic, personal library system. 1960s – Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) does research on “internetwork”, connecting small and large networks. 1968 Doug Engelbart demonstrates NLS, a hypertext system that uses a “mouse”.
