04:189:102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fairness Doctrine, Hulu, Golf Channel

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Professor Steve Miller

Document Summary

Chapter 2 the internet, digital media, and media convergence. The internet became increasingly interactive by the 1990s, allowing immediate two-way communication and one-to-many communication, started off as a military- government project, with computer time-sharing as one of its goals. This original internet called arpanet and nicknamed the net enabled military and academic researchers to communicate on a distributed network system. First, they created a wired network in which users from multiple locations could log into a computer whenever they needed it. The national defense industry [hierarchically structured and centrally organized] created the internet. Email, invented in 1971 by computer engineer ray tomlinson, who developed software to send electronic mail messages to any computer by arpanet. The first signal of the net"s marketability came in 1971 with the introduction of microprocessors, miniature circuits that process and store electronic signals. Using these, manufacturers were eventually able to introduce the first personal computers.