MMC 2604 Chapter 2: The Internet, Digital Media and Media Convergence
23 Oct 2013
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The evolution of the internet: the birth of the internet. The internet originated as a military-government project. The original internet-called arpanet and nicknamed the net- enabled military and academic researchers to communicated on a distributed network system. The network used a system called packet switching which broke down messages into smaller pieces to more easily route them through multiple paths on the network before reassembling them on the other end. E-mail was invented in 1971 by ray tomlinson. Bulletin boards: sites that listed information about particular topics: the net widens. The first signal of the net"s marketability came in 1971 with the introduction of microprocessors, miniature circuits that process and store electronic signals. Led to the development of personal computers (pcs) In the mid 1980s, fiber-optic cable became the standard for transmitting communication data speedily. With the dissolution of the soviet union, the arpanet military venture officially ended: web 1. 0: the world begins to browse.
