2006-10-03 23:11:33 · 6 answers · asked by Bryan Jim B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
apparently all the way to your house.
2006-10-03 23:13:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think that you are asking about the history of the Internet, and how much it has impacted our lives?
The Internet was developed in the 60's by a few brain-trusts at (where else - MIT & Rand) and continued developing by many hands thereafter for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to the USSR Sputnik launch. The Internet was intially developed for the DoD, various universities and a few large businesses overseas for the purpose of time-sharing computer time and communications between the research facilities and the government.
When I was introduced to the Internet, there was no WWW, only ARPANET in the 1970's. What many people today call the Internet -the 'net, what they really mean is the WWW - the web - that is where we are communicating on now. The WWW is part of the Internet - some of the other parts are FTP-file transfer protocol and Usenet.
The growth of # of dedicated WWW servers goes from 12/90 - 1 to 8/05 - 70,392,567. Most have multiple sites that have multiple domains.
The growth of the Internet was synonamous with the growth of the personal computer. Mainframe systems were the huge, bulky machines that was produced with the technology at hand. The computer that you are using has more processing power than most of the mainframes did when I was working on them.
In the beginning there was text messaging on a university mainframe terminal to another research terminal within a very few amount of networked computers in data centers.
Now, you can take an eLearning course, run a business, shop til you drop, live chat, view and run webcams, contact people, download and upload files, do your banking, make phone calls, and do this on the Internet sitting in your jammies and fluffy slippers - all over the world! On your PC's/MAC's, PDA's, Blackberry's, Tablets, Cell Phones....
Ain't technology grand?
2006-10-04 06:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an incredibly vague question. I doubt you'll get many insightful answers here (mine included). There's no way to measure how far it's come, but obviously if you look at the impact it has on our daily lives today versus in the early 90's the difference is vast.
Today almost every ad mentions a web site, I remember in the 90s when it was shocking to see that. Today you can do almost anything online, banking, shopping, travel, dmv stuff, news, video... a lot of this was possible in the early days, but it was all very limited and people were unsure about it.
Maybe this offers some perspective, but I wish your question was a bit more specific in terms of what you mean.
2006-10-04 06:15:57 · answer #3 · answered by GrayTheory 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is Global.... Well if an astronaut has a laptop in the moon and surfs the web thru there, will now be a different story.
2006-10-04 06:13:19 · answer #4 · answered by JarmenKell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
internet is a very useful thing in giving different king of information wherever and whenever you are. it revolutionzed technology itself.
2006-10-04 06:19:24 · answer #5 · answered by arc-in-the-sky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from the stars.. i mean through satellite
2006-10-04 06:19:41 · answer #6 · answered by Nishu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋