Being 29 I believe I am a dying bread that actually remembers what life was like before the internet. I graduated high school before a time of an IPAD in everyone's hands in the class room. However, I can not be upset with the glorious features and joys the internet has brought many of us from around the world.
Before I dive into the benefits, tips, and techniques of using "the internet", I want to provide some fascinating history behind it that you may not be aware of.
I am not surprised that many of your who use the internet today may not realize it was created not that long ago. Of course you are probably thinking the creator of the internet was probably Steven Jobs or Bill Gates, however, you would be incorrect.
It is surprising to read that the first "real" connection was made when the computers from Stanford and ULCA started communicating back in 1969 (Evans, Martin, 2014). Now I will say this surprised me I was born in 1986 and remember dial-up internet. If the internet was founded 17 years before I was born why did I suffer through so many years of dial-up internet!
The answer to that my friends lies in one glorious computer scientist name Tim Berner-Lee who in 1990 created what we know now as "The World Wide Web" (Andrews, 2013)!
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References:
Andrews, Evan. (2013 Dec. 18). Who invented the internet? Ask History. Retrieved from: http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-internet
Evans, A., Martin, K., Poatsy, M. A. (2014-03-01). Technology In Action, Introductory, 11th Edition. [VitalSource Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from https://kaplan.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781323028339/