Booming of Internet Industry
Description
The Internet is a publicly accessible worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP). It is composed of thousands of smaller commercial, academic, domestic, and government networks. The internet carries various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.
The Internet nowadays derive from ARPANET, which was brought out at UCLA on October 29th, 1969, for the purpose of military use. Later, the computers of the U.S. National Laboratories for scientific reserch are also connected into the net.
The network gained a public face in the 1990s. In August 1991 CERN in Switzerland publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few web pages at CERN in Switzerland. In 1993, the Mosaic web browser version 1.0 was released , and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 the word "Internet" was common public currency, but it referred almost entirely to the World Wide Web.
It was only in this half decade that the Internet has evolved from a boby in the cradle to a coooool & versatile guy/girl. Despite where you are and who you are, the whole world open a landscape for you when you sit in front of the computer. People are surfing on the Internet for all kinds of information: digtal books(though some are illegal indeed), booking hotel, doing businesses, play games and watching movies, etc. Internet has become an essential commodity in people's life, just like food and drinks.
Enablers
- Booming of Computer Industry
The price of computer and computer related devices have declined dramatically in this century. Hence, the dropping price enable once royle modern device available for common people.
-Demand of communication
It is very common to see people choose to on MSN or Skype as soon as they start their computer. You feel you are with your friends or relatives all day time as long as you turn on your laptop. This kind of belonging is important to human being.
What's more, Internet can widen people's network circle, not only on Internet, but also in real word. It is not uncommon to see people go offline and make virtual friends to be realistic friends. These friends can be found in the games, in the searching engines of Yahoo! messengers, MSN, etc.
-Increase of Population
The population is increasing world widely these years, which enable more and more people get on the Internet. Given the nature of Internet, its effectiveness increases when more and more people are going to use it.
Inhabitors
-Political Issues
Due to the openess of Internet, some of the so-called sensitive websites are blocked in a few countries,e.g., People Republic of China. There are some regulations on Internet content as far as its content concerned.
-Lisenses and Copy Right
Despite the fact that there are numbers of free digtal books, mp3 as well as movies on the Internet, a lot of them are illegal. These benefit majority based on detriment on the right of minority of people who have got the copy right. Therefore, these days, some of these open content are forbidden by authorities.
-Criminals
You have no idea about the stranger who is sit in front the other side of the line and talk to you. Gender, age, needless to say personality of him/her. Hundreds of young girls are induced by the sweet words come from the screen and hurt, some even lost their lives. Nowadays, government worldwide are limited the duration of teenagers spent on the Internet.
Paradigms
It is common that everybody has a PC in their office and at home as well. Work on the Internet, discuss on the Internet, sell and buy stuff as well as have conferences in different continents on the earth on the Internet.
Experts
It seems that hundreds and thousands of people contribute and gain from the emerging of Internet.
Timing
- October 29, 1969, the first node went live at UCLA on on what would be called the ARPANET, the "eve" network of today's Internet.
- In December of 1970, Charles A. Petrik contacted the U.S. Navy and suggested that a special communications network, that the Department of Defense had built for use in the possiblitity of a nuclear attack, could also be used during peace time.
- January 1, 1983, the first TCP/IP wide area network was operated by the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) when it constructed a university network backbone that later became the NSFNet. (technically the birth of the Internet)
- In 1995,opening of the network to commercial interests.
- January 2006, over 1 billion people are using the Internet according to Internet World Stats.