Chapter 10 Mackey, Stephen, Ellen Barbour, and James Tyndale. Past Histories . As we look back to the year 2000, the turn of the century, we see that the Internet has made a huge impact on society.
First lets define the Internet.
The Internet is a loose association of thousands of networks and millions of computers across the world that all work together to share information. The first hint of the Internet came about in 1962, when MIT s C.R. Licklider wrote a series of memos about what he called the Galactic Network concept. He envisioned a global network through which everyone could share access data and programs. Over the next several years, this test tube Internet grew steadily, but remarkably, as government agencies, universities, and corporations continued to develop and hammer out protocols and architectures. Email and the Internet made their first public appearances in 1972 at the Internet Computer Conference.