Internet is a technology used to send
messages across the PCs with a purpose of connecting people or networks. If you
ask me to tell the exact date of invention of the software and concept of
internet, then I would say I don not know. In fact no one knows when was the
day when internet exactly came to its existence as an idea. But origin of
internet was reported somewhere between 1950s-1970s. Internet was born with the
idea of utilizing networks and computer systems to link and share information
or messages across the area covered.
Today internet is much more than just a mode
of sharing or linking information via one computer set to another. Internet has
traveled along way and covered a long journey full of changes, up-gradation and
development in technology behind the internet.
Did you know that internet was once upon a
time known as INTRANET? May be no. INTRANET or advanced research project agency
was a kind a of R & D or research and department section built for the
benefit of science and military area.
That is why internet at its early era was not a public usage service as
internet was complicated as well as technical enough to be used by only
experts.
Internet history began long back ago and till
now internet has grown and evolved itself into a powerful technology. If
internet history is divided into parts then it would start from the age of
concept before the 1960s followed by history or advancement of computer and
software, history of mails, search engines and downloading technology. Internet
history is also followed by the change in internet usage such as internet from
a sharing device to now a complete world of its own.
Not many of us know that the very first
adaptation of email was launched somewhere in 1972 and was a creation of Ray Tomlin-son. The first version of search engine was introduced in year 1989 with
a different name ‘Archie’, with a purpose of searching information.
From launch of public user internet (1990) to
launch of windows, internet has seen changes and development in a large sense.
Today internet has high speed networks and can be accessed by laptops; GPRS
enabled mobile phones and more. Internet has television in it and can save or
sends large number of files or mails and what not. You can see your friend or
family member sitting far in another country by a click of your computer keys.
You can shop on internet, ATM works on
internet, publish your book on internet and download any song or movie from
internet without searching for it in music shops. Now that’s how far has
internet come and no one know how far it will go from here, but we do know that
this is definitely not a stop for the technology called internet.
From INTRANET to INTERNET, internet has a history of changes, advancements and development
as well as enfolds the roots of history of many supportive technologies.
Generation ‘NOW’ does not know much about
internet and its journey till now but does know that internet is still moving
and creating history and historical movements. Now, what was the latest creation? I know Internet television.
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