my.history.of.the.internet.
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can remember the early days of my first family computer. I can remember fighting with my sister over who would get to plays the SIMS after dinner first, making friends in chat rooms before anyone worried about internet predators, joining Jonathans Taylor Thomas’s fan site, minesweeper, finally getting the Oregon Trail for Christmas. But now the internet has so much more to offer, so much more than chatting or computer gaming. We can check our bank accounts, send and receive messages from friends across the globe, buy/trade stocks, add or drop courses, find information for a research paper with out leaving our apartment, buy plane tickets, concert tickets, buy cars, sell cars, get directions, find recipes, check the weather, download movies and music…the internet is filled with endless possibilities! A brief history of the internet starts with a man named J. C. R. Licklider. He was selected to head the Information (IPTO), and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. This network grew and expanded worldwide. The network opened to commercial interests in 1985. The network gained a public face in the 1990s. On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN. Basically the internet grew significantly from there and I cannot imagine what it will be like 20 years from now.As of June 10, 2007, 1.133 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats.
