William Gibson And The Internet

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William Gibson and The Internet

William Gibson and The Internet

Introduction

     The words "Internet" and "world wide web" are becoming everyday use these
days, it has exploded into the mass market of information and advertising. There
are bad points about the "net"  as well as good points, this relatively new
medium is growing at such a rate that the media have to take it seriously.
       This new form of communication was mainly populated by  small groups of
communities, but now that it is getting much  easier  to access the web these
groups are growing.
     The word Cyberpunk is nothing new in the world of the "net" and to science
fiction readers , and it is this term which names  most of the online
communities . Within the Cyberpunk cultures there are sub cultures such as
hackers, phreaks ,ravers etc.. all have a connection with new technologies.  The
term Cyberpunk was originated in Science Fiction Literature, writers such as
William Gibson tell stories  of future worlds, cultures and the Internet.
     it is William Gibson and the cyberpunks who have carried out some of the
most important mappings of our present moment and its future trends during the
past decade. The present, in these mappings, is thus viewed from the persceptive
of a future that is visible from within the experiences and trends of the
current moment, from this perpscetive, cyberpunk can be read as a sort of social
theory.

Chapter 1

Internet history

     The Internet is a network of computer networks, the most important of
which was called ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork), a wide area
experimental network connecting hosts and terminal servers together. Rules were
set up to supervise the allocation of addresses  and to  create voluntary
standards for the network. The ARPANET was built between October and December
1969 by a US company called Bolt, Beranak and Newman (BBN), which is still big
in the Internet world. It had won a contract from the US Government's Department
of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency , or ARPA, to build a network that
would survive a nuclear attack. Only four government mainframe computers were
originally linked up, Unfortunately, ARPANET was also dependent on the
involvement of hundreds of US computer scientists. Because the ARPANET was a
military project, it was managed in true military style - the project manager
appointed by ARPA gave the orders and they were carried out. It was therefore
easy to tell who "ran" the network. By 19...

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