HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
Technological advancements have been very rapid in the last century and even up to date. Technology is disruptive and causes significant shifts in how people run their lives. The internet has been one major invention which has created a substantial change in people`s lives. Most people today are dependent on the internet for either communication or for researching different areas of interest that they may have.
The birth of the internet is related to the development of electronic computers in the nineteen fifties. The ideas and concepts of wide area networking came from several computer science laboratories United States, United Kingdom and France (Young, 2015). In the nineteen sixties, the united states government awarded contracts for the development of advanced research projects agency network (ARPANET), this became the world`s first operational packet switching network.
The World Wide Web development was in the nineteen-eighties in Switzerland. The discovery was done by a British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The new network involved linking different documents into an information system whose accessibility is from any node on the web (McCoy, 2011). The program is still being used today though it has experienced significant improvements since its development. Initially the system`s utilization was only by government but its demand led to its commercialization.
The internet has become a primary tool that people use for communication, especially using the web-based applications that have continuously gained traction. The internet over the years of its existence has changed people`s lives immeasurably. The internet is now easily accessible by anyone from their home and also through their phones, which have network connectivity.
References
McCoy, L., (2011). Internet. New York: Ferguson Pub.
Young, G., (2015). The Internet. New York: H.W. Wilson.