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I was 12 years old when I had my first encounter with the internet, I remember my dad had called me over to his laboratory, and he showed me his Intel Pentium 1 computer screen -it was a plain white screen, and slowly a photograph of Apollo 13 began forming out of nowhere.
It was beautiful. I asked him what this magic was, and he said it is called the internet, it basically connects computers from all around the world. I showed little interest. Then he told me that with the internet I can see whatever is there on other computers, including the games on his colleague's desktop. And then he showed me the Netscape browser. I have never looked back since, and my jaw continues to drag on the floor.
On October 29th, 1969 the letters 'LO' became the first to travel between two computers, skimming over 650 kilometers between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. The network was called the ARPANET, later to be branded as the internet. The original intention of Leonard Kleinrock, the father of ARPANET was to type in the words LOGIN, however the connection was lost after the O. "We had four-node network and tested the heck out of it. We were able to break the network at will. It was very valuable to shake those things out early on," said Kleinrock.
A few months later many computers were added to the network and hundreds of messages were passed amongst them everyday. By 1975 the network went international as Europe became connected with the satellite link to hundreds of computers. And in the 80s ARPANET proposed a domain name system with '.com' and '.gov'. Commercial interests kicked in and the education-only network metamorphosed into "Internet Commercial" and finally the "Internet". But the big change came in 1989 when AOL (formerly named Quantum Computer Services) launched a campaign named America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers that would ensure at least 27 million would be connected to the internet by the year 2000.
Along came a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 who pitched in the idea for the 'web' as we know it. Mosaic was developed in 1993 by Marc Andreessen, which was the first web browser that made use of graphics as well as text simultaneously, and a year later the legendary 'Netscape' browser spawned. What followed is the dotcom boom, and the rest is history. In ten years the Netscape browser fell flat as Microsoft's Internet Explorer took over the reigns. It is an absolute browser war today as Mozilla's Firefox and Chrome eat away into Internet Explorer's market share, along with Opera and Safari.
Bigwigs like Email, Blogs, Online Banking, Social Networking, Microblogging, Real Time Search and Torrents have now arrived with the likes of Google, Yahoo (who made a revolution with GeoCities), Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Piratebay etc. Of course there also emerged financial frauds, porn and sex trafficking among others.
What do you think we will witness in another ten years? Will it still be called the 'internet'? "The next step is to move it into the real world. The internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and it will know I am there. It will talk back to me," says Kleinrock, now 75.I was 12 years old when I had my first encounter with the internet, I remember my dad had called me over to his laboratory, and he showed me his Intel Pentium 1 computer screen -it was a plain white screen, and slowly a photograph of Apollo 13 began forming out of nowhere.
It was beautiful. I asked him what this magic was, and he said it is called the internet, it basically connects computers from all around the world. I showed little interest. Then he told me that with the internet I can see whatever is there on other computers, including the games on his colleague's desktop. And then he showed me the Netscape browser. I have never looked back since, and my jaw continues to drag on the floor.
On October 29th, 1969 the letters 'LO' became the first to travel between two computers, skimming over 650 kilometers between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. The network was called the ARPANET, later to be branded as the internet. The original intention of Leonard Kleinrock, the father of ARPANET was to type in the words LOGIN, however the connection was lost after the O. "We had four-node network and tested the heck out of it. We were able to break the network at will. It was very valuable to shake those things out early on," said Kleinrock.
A few months later many computers were added to the network and hundreds of messages were passed amongst them everyday. By 1975 the network went international as Europe became connected with the satellite link to hundreds of computers. And in the 80s ARPANET proposed a domain name system with '.com' and '.gov'. Commercial interests kicked in and the education-only network metamorphosed into "Internet Commercial" and finally the "Internet". But the big change came in 1989 when AOL (formerly named Quantum Computer Services) launched a campaign named America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers that would ensure at least 27 million would be connected to the internet by the year 2000.
Along came a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 who pitched in the idea for the 'web' as we know it. Mosaic was developed in 1993 by Marc Andreessen, which was the first web browser that made use of graphics as well as text simultaneously, and a year later the legendary 'Netscape' browser spawned. What followed is the dotcom boom, and the rest is history. In ten years the Netscape browser fell flat as Microsoft's Internet Explorer took over the reigns. It is an absolute browser war today as Mozilla's Firefox and Chrome eat away into Internet Explorer's market share, along with Opera and Safari.
Bigwigs like Email, Blogs, Online Banking, Social Networking, Microblogging, Real Time Search and Torrents have now arrived with the likes of Google, Yahoo (who made a revolution with GeoCities), Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Piratebay etc. Of course there also emerged financial frauds, porn and sex trafficking among others.
What do you think we will witness in another ten years? Will it still be called the 'internet'? "The next step is to move it into the real world. The internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and it will know I am there. It will talk back to me," says Kleinrock, now 75.
It was beautiful. I asked him what this magic was, and he said it is called the internet, it basically connects computers from all around the world. I showed little interest. Then he told me that with the internet I can see whatever is there on other computers, including the games on his colleague's desktop. And then he showed me the Netscape browser. I have never looked back since, and my jaw continues to drag on the floor.
On October 29th, 1969 the letters 'LO' became the first to travel between two computers, skimming over 650 kilometers between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. The network was called the ARPANET, later to be branded as the internet. The original intention of Leonard Kleinrock, the father of ARPANET was to type in the words LOGIN, however the connection was lost after the O. "We had four-node network and tested the heck out of it. We were able to break the network at will. It was very valuable to shake those things out early on," said Kleinrock.
A few months later many computers were added to the network and hundreds of messages were passed amongst them everyday. By 1975 the network went international as Europe became connected with the satellite link to hundreds of computers. And in the 80s ARPANET proposed a domain name system with '.com' and '.gov'. Commercial interests kicked in and the education-only network metamorphosed into "Internet Commercial" and finally the "Internet". But the big change came in 1989 when AOL (formerly named Quantum Computer Services) launched a campaign named America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers that would ensure at least 27 million would be connected to the internet by the year 2000.
Along came a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 who pitched in the idea for the 'web' as we know it. Mosaic was developed in 1993 by Marc Andreessen, which was the first web browser that made use of graphics as well as text simultaneously, and a year later the legendary 'Netscape' browser spawned. What followed is the dotcom boom, and the rest is history. In ten years the Netscape browser fell flat as Microsoft's Internet Explorer took over the reigns. It is an absolute browser war today as Mozilla's Firefox and Chrome eat away into Internet Explorer's market share, along with Opera and Safari.
Bigwigs like Email, Blogs, Online Banking, Social Networking, Microblogging, Real Time Search and Torrents have now arrived with the likes of Google, Yahoo (who made a revolution with GeoCities), Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Piratebay etc. Of course there also emerged financial frauds, porn and sex trafficking among others.
What do you think we will witness in another ten years? Will it still be called the 'internet'? "The next step is to move it into the real world. The internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and it will know I am there. It will talk back to me," says Kleinrock, now 75.I was 12 years old when I had my first encounter with the internet, I remember my dad had called me over to his laboratory, and he showed me his Intel Pentium 1 computer screen -it was a plain white screen, and slowly a photograph of Apollo 13 began forming out of nowhere.
It was beautiful. I asked him what this magic was, and he said it is called the internet, it basically connects computers from all around the world. I showed little interest. Then he told me that with the internet I can see whatever is there on other computers, including the games on his colleague's desktop. And then he showed me the Netscape browser. I have never looked back since, and my jaw continues to drag on the floor.
On October 29th, 1969 the letters 'LO' became the first to travel between two computers, skimming over 650 kilometers between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. The network was called the ARPANET, later to be branded as the internet. The original intention of Leonard Kleinrock, the father of ARPANET was to type in the words LOGIN, however the connection was lost after the O. "We had four-node network and tested the heck out of it. We were able to break the network at will. It was very valuable to shake those things out early on," said Kleinrock.
A few months later many computers were added to the network and hundreds of messages were passed amongst them everyday. By 1975 the network went international as Europe became connected with the satellite link to hundreds of computers. And in the 80s ARPANET proposed a domain name system with '.com' and '.gov'. Commercial interests kicked in and the education-only network metamorphosed into "Internet Commercial" and finally the "Internet". But the big change came in 1989 when AOL (formerly named Quantum Computer Services) launched a campaign named America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers that would ensure at least 27 million would be connected to the internet by the year 2000.
Along came a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 who pitched in the idea for the 'web' as we know it. Mosaic was developed in 1993 by Marc Andreessen, which was the first web browser that made use of graphics as well as text simultaneously, and a year later the legendary 'Netscape' browser spawned. What followed is the dotcom boom, and the rest is history. In ten years the Netscape browser fell flat as Microsoft's Internet Explorer took over the reigns. It is an absolute browser war today as Mozilla's Firefox and Chrome eat away into Internet Explorer's market share, along with Opera and Safari.
Bigwigs like Email, Blogs, Online Banking, Social Networking, Microblogging, Real Time Search and Torrents have now arrived with the likes of Google, Yahoo (who made a revolution with GeoCities), Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Piratebay etc. Of course there also emerged financial frauds, porn and sex trafficking among others.
What do you think we will witness in another ten years? Will it still be called the 'internet'? "The next step is to move it into the real world. The internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and it will know I am there. It will talk back to me," says Kleinrock, now 75.
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