History of the internet

The Internet , or Super Information Highway , links distant computers together ' and allows the transport of anything electronic from computer to computer (Winston , 1998 ,

. 321 ) This massive form of communication has an extensive history that dates back to the 1940s when its theory emerged from the existence of telecommunications networks that date as far back as the 19th century . The basic theory that evolved into our current highway of electronic communication was built upon the foundation of Norbert Wiener 's best selling popular outline of these concepts , The Human Use of Human

Beings ' that appeared in 1954 , where the author spoke of Cybernetics (Winston , 1998 ,

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This author went on to publish yet another book on his cybernetics theory titled Cybernetics : or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine in 1961 , which spoke to its continued currency (Winston , 1998 ,

. 321-322 ) The Cybernetics and Information Theory were significant to the creation of the Internet because Information Theory commoditizes information , draining it of semantic content (Winston , 1998 ,

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Cybernetics , defined as content that is electronically coded without a specific meaning , lead to prototype activities . George Stibitz created the first prototype which connected a single computer by a telephone wire . This computer would be labeled as the IBM Model 1 and was created in the 1940s . This model would evolve into yet another prototype created in 1960 where GE and a specialized firm Tymeshare sold systems allowing for remote access to computers via telephone links (Winston , 1998 ,

. 322 ) These computers went through a process titled time sharing , which consisted of programming a computer in such a manner that it allowed the computer to deal with a number of activities without the user being aware of any delay in processing (Winston , 1998 ,

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In July 1945 , Vannevar Bush published an article based upon the ideology behind associative databanks that envisaged a machine which in essence , allows for the entire compendium of human knowledge to be accessed or searched in an associative manner (Winston , 1998 ,

br 322 ) Prominent researchers developing the use of computers suddenly became frightened at the machine 's evolution because the image of all human knowledge placed in an electronic devise seemed unusual . However the publication of this article was the first articulation of the idea that would later evolve into the World Wide Web (Winston , 1998 ,

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Bush continued his research and out of his work he conceived his idea of the Memex , a microfilm /audio recording device , which would allow `selection by association rather than by indexing (Winston 1998 ,

. 322 ) The Memex was a sort of multi-screened microfilm reader ' that was operated with a keyboard that allowed users to scan a complete personal library and notes , letters and other communication Users could also create notes and comments with photo imaging or sound using systems that were built in . Bush declared that All this is conventional except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry (Winston , 1998 ,

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