HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Internet Protocol, Hostname, Wael Ghonim
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Case study no. 1: egypt and the politics of social media the internet is the basic platform from which all of this becomes possible. Licklider proposed a network of computers that could talk to each other in 1969 the rst ever message was sent from one computer to another over the arpanet (the advanced research projects. Agency network) - the governments computer network at the time one was located in a research lab in ucla and the other at stanford. All the message said was login and it didn"t fail. Ray tomlinson also was developing a system that would sent mail back and forth between users of arpranet this was eventually called electronical mail or e-mail for short. @ symbol was used to tell a persons name from a hostname apart. February 2004: mark zuckerberg and a few friends developed facebook from a harvard dorm by september they launched the facebook wall. Facebook also launches facebook photos at the time.