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The Inter(esting)net

The Inter(esting)net

The Inter(esting)net

With only 1000 or so networks in the mid 1980's, the Internet has become
tremendous technological change to society over the past few years. In 1994,
more than twenty-five million people gained access to the Internet (Groiler..).
The Internet users are mainly from the United States of America and Europe, but
other countries around the world will be connected soon as improvements of
communication lines are made.
The Internet originated in the United States Defense Department's ARPAnet
(Advanced Research Project Agency, produced by the Pentagon) Project in 1969
(Krol). Military planners sought to design a computer networking system that
could withstand an attack such as a nuclear war. In the 1980's, the National
Science Foundation built five Superconductor Computer Centers to give several
universities academic access to high powered computers formerly available to
only the United State's military (Krol). The National Science Foundation then
built its own network chaining more universities together. Later, the network
connections were being used for purposes unrelated to the National Science
Foundation's idea such as the universities sending electronic mail (today, it is
understood as Email). The United States government then helped pushed the
evolution of the Internet, calling the project: Information Super Highway
(Groiler..).
In the early 1990's the trend then boomed. Businesses soon connected to
the Internet, and started using the Internet as a way of saving money through
advertising products and electronic mailing (Abbot). Communications between
different companies also arose due to the convenience of the Internet. Owners
of personal computers soon became eager to connect to the Internet. Through a
modem or Ethernet adapter (computer hardware devices that allow a physical
connection to Internet), home computers can now be made to be accessible to the
Internet (Groiler..).
New Internet servers have evolved since the National Sciences Foundation's
basic idea back in the 1980's (Krol). The majority of the home users subscribe
to services such as Netscape, Prodigy, America Online, and CompuServe. These
services are connected to the Internet and provide user-friendly access to the
Internet for a reasonable monthly fee. These services are connected to a main
server called the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a service that is
defined as global international networking (Abbot). T

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