INTERNET

What It Was   • • •  What It Is   • • •  What It Will Be

Cyber Space The 9th Wonder of the World

 

CHANGE THE WORLD

The Chinese invention of moveable type, is credited to Bi Sheng in the year 1045 AD way before Guttenberg ever printed a bible, and the internet is far and away more impressive in changing the world than moveable type was for it's time.

Remember one other simple fact:
The Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends. The Internet’s value is founded in its technical architecture.

"The Internet is a way for all the things that call themselves networks to coexist and work together. It's an inter-network. Literally. What makes the Net inter is the fact that it's just a protocol — the Internet Protocol, to be exact. A protocol is an agreement about how things work together."

Fabulous Internet Tutorial For Beginners where you will how to click and scroll to rock'n roll around the net, share this with your local librarian.

INTERNET - WHAT IT WAS

The Internet was developed in the 1960s by DARPA, actually, with 4 nodes and 4 computers by 1971, used by academic researchers in the USA. Dial up speed was only Kilobits. In 1998 there were about 50 million users supported by 25 million servers and ICANN was created. In 1979 10 MB of disk storage cost $1,000.oo.

INTERNET - WHAT IT IS

Today there are an estimated 542 million servers and about 1.3 billion users. Around 3 billion mobile phones, 15% are internet enabled adding 450 million devices to the net, and 1 billion personal computers, Voice over IP, video conferencing, audio, and video content, scientific databases. In 2008 2 TB of disk storage cost $600.oo. (in 1979 2 TB cost $200 million)

INTERNET - WHAT IT WILL BE

There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act.

From Dial up to Deep Space

DTN: Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking
The Interplanetary Internet: networking technology for space that allows interoperable networking between spacecraft of earth origin and devices on the internet. This will be standardized for usy by any of the world's space agencies. Spacecraft from any country will be interoperable each other.

Loss of Information

Application software does not last 1000 years. Unless it is preserved we loose our ability to interpret digital content. You won't be able to open, format, or interpret digital content. We need to preserve the software and operating systems even when the company goes out of business.

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