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Social Impact Of The Internet Past And Present
Visionaries like the great Doctor Vannevar Bush once dreamed that knowledge shall be shared and communicated over large areas by a “memex” machine, and that this “memex” shall revolutionize the way we learn and interact with each other. Doctor Bush in the year 1945 may have not predicted the actual computer or the Internet of today, but his startling predictions did point in one direction, society will change drastically by this invention. The Internet is and will continue to become a great impact in our society from its feeble beginnings as a governmental project, to the amorphous network of millions of computers, it is an overriding force in all aspects of society from global politics to everyday affairs like grocery shopping. In order to predict where something is going to end up and where something is at the present moment one has to delve into the past in order to gain adequate knowledge of past trends. This notion holds true when discussing the Internet’s future. One must know the past if the future is to be found. The U.S. government, the father of the Internet was its main creator. The U.S. had a problem during the cold war. They needed a foolproof way to communicate after a nuclear attack. Its current network, if destroyed at any point would be rendered useless after an attack (Mayr 3). The U.S. decided to contact the Rand Corporation which was headed by Paul Baran at the time to invent a network that will stay running after a nuclear attack. What Rand came up with was a network with no central authority (4). If one node of the network were to go down, it would have a web of other connections in it so that the network could still function. This new network was called “Arpanet” and started its operation in 1969. By 1971 the success and popularity amongst intellectuals of Arpanet had risen, it had more than 23 sites on the network including international sites. The... Please login to view comments from other users.
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