Hey! Welcome to the internet. So the internet is arguably the biggest leap forward for humanity since the invention of the telephone or the dawn of the industrial age. And with it, we've transformed the entire world through learning, socializing and entertainment. Not to mention thousands of over reasons why the web is something many can no longer live without. But for something that you use every single day, how much do you really know about it? Or for that matter, how it works or where it came from? Well, in this Facts in Five, I'm going to explain everything that you need to know about the inter-webs in five minutes or less.
Today we're going to look at that wonderful tool that allows you even to see this video at all, the World Wide Web. It's an ever-evolving doorway to virtually unlimited information that has impacted almost every facet of our lives. So without further ado, This is Facts in Five, All About the Internet.
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Today we're going to look at that wonderful tool that allows you even to see this video at all, the World Wide Web. It's an ever-evolving doorway to virtually unlimited information that has impacted almost every facet of our lives. So without further ado, This is Facts in Five, All About the Internet.
1. So what is the internet?
The Internet is an interconnected series of computer networks that link billions of devices worldwide. Connected via electronic optical and wireless technologies, this large network has revolutionized communication and data transferring. The internet consists of many networks of local to global scope all webbed together to provide us as users with incredible resources such as email, file sharing, research applications, social media, multiplayer games and audio and video platforms, my favorite being YouTube. The bottom line is the web is just one big network that has the potential to connect the entire world.2. So who created the internet?
Back in August of 1962, MIT computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider, yes, that's his real name, sent a series of memos about a galactic network concept. Which was the first time that the notion of social interaction was recorded. Communication by computer networks was originally commissioned by the United States government in the 1960's. Their hope was to develop a platform for academic and military applications and by the 1980's they got their wish in the form of ARPANET. ARPANET was considered to be the primary precursor for what we now call the internet. By the early 1990's, the National Science Foundation, along with commercial enterprises, merged many networks starting to form the web that we know and love today.3. Where the internet take us?
One of the most beautiful things about the internet is that literally, nobody is in charge of it. Now while it's true that service providers control what we pay to access the web and individual websites restrict what content is accessible, there really is no person or company in control of the internet as a network. This means that there is literally no limit to what we can find online and for that matter what we can put up online for the world to find. With over 3.2 billion people using the internet in one way or another, the amount of information that we can access increases exponentially by the second. Considered to be the Big Four, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft collectively store over 1,200 petabytes or 1.2 million terabytes of information and that grows ever vastly every day.4. When did the internet take off?
Originally used widely in the 1980s mostly by academia, the internet quickly began transforming into the modern version that we have today. This is especially true after domain names were invented by Paul Mockapetris in 1983 and the World Wide Web or WWW as you know it, was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. With it's popularity booming, electronic mail had already surpassed postal mail by 1996, the same year that Google was launched. Though back then it was just a search engine called BackRub. I kinda like that, it kinda makes me fell all warm and fuzzy. Then, by 2014 over 38% of the earth's population has used the internet, which is over 100 times more than 1995.5. So why is the internet so important?
Other than the fact that the whole web has brought the whole world together in a digital age, it's also been one of the greatest examples of the benefits of a commitment to evolving and bettering technology. In fact, it's evolving so quickly; it's almost like the internet is learning by itself. When a person in New York can discover news of an event happening in Paris at the exact same time as someone a block away from the event does, this solidifies the notion that we live in a world of incredible possibilities. It's an amazing time that we live in when the entire world is no farther away than a single click.Thank you guys so much for reading. If you want to learn more, be sure to check out another article and if you enjoyed this article, please let me know by commenting below and be sure to Subscribe our newsletter too, so that you can catch my next article. See you.
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