NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Telnet, Microcomputer, Collective Intelligence
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How web 1. 0 and web 2. 0 came about. An interconnected network of a vast number of computer networks linking academic, research, government, and commercial institutions: connected through telecommunications technologies such as: telephone lines, coaxial cables, fiber optic cables, satellite, and radio, a communication infrastructure. Was a product of the its social environment. There have been many actors taking part in its development: users played an active part in its development. It was built through a series of social choices. Three development stages: innovation stage 1969-75, institutional stage 1975-95, commercialization stage 1995-onward. The fundamental building blocks of the internet were conceptualized and then realized in actual hardware and software. Based on the experimental arpanet network (1969) funded and encouraged by the advanced. Research projects agency of the u. s. department of defense: as an initial reaction to the launch of the sputnik (1957) Linked the mainframe computers military agencies and research centers at universities. Intended to enable resource sharing between remote computers.