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What is the Internet?

by Raydal
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Today this would be a foolish question but in 1994 it wasn't
even for people "in the know". A look back.

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-Ray Edwards
  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by Raydal View Post

    Today this would be a foolish question but in 1994 it wasn't
    even for people "in the know". A look back.

    Watch NBC TODAY Show: Flashback! TODAY Anchors

    -Ray Edwards
    ACTUALLY, a ****LOT**** of people today don't know what the internet or the cloud are. MOST of them THINK they do!

    The internet is a collection of computers networked together via Ethernet and compatible protocols. It is EXACTLY like the first remote access systems started, except that most resources can be accessed through various standards as if they were local.

    The WWW is a collection of sites on the internet running HTTP compatible protocols.

    The user@domain is most often used by a collection of users that have access to the standard email routines, for an email address, and is not necessarily on the internet, though most are.

    And "the cloud" is REALLY, historically, just a network!!!!! It is used today to imply some service provided over the internet.

    But YEAH, you may talk to a kid, or even an adult today, and they may point to their browser, or their email and say that is the internet. It has NOTHING to do with the internet! You can do the email locally, and the http locally, and they both came after the internet. They are simply network compatible apps to provide services OVER networks, such as the internet.

    BTW the internet has been around for a long time. It was even open to the average American before 1994. Although GORE did ****NOT**** invent the internet, apparently he IS one of the ones that supported opening it up. I wonder why they didn't do it earlier though.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore...ion_technology

    In the 1980s and 1990s, he promoted legislation that funded an expansion of the ARPANET, allowing greater public access, and helping to develop the Internet.
    Arpanet WAS, and IS, for all intents and purposes, the internet. It was created under DARPA

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

    DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking
    Computer networking, AKA "THE INTERNET!" The ACTUAL technology was CORPORATE, and AT&T apparently gets the credit for THAT. DARPA just got it connected nationally to the US trunk lines, and made it national.

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author BigFrank
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      Al Gore's greatest achievement. :-)

      Cheers. - Frank
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by BigFrank View Post

        Al Gore's greatest achievement. :-)

        Cheers. - Frank
        Yeah, he is like the guy that got coca cola to allow bottlers, but he tried to casualty make it casually sound like he started it. I should have read all of that first site. They try to make it sound like Al gore started the internet in 1993. WOW, I KNOW I was on it by 1992, and wanted to get on it MUCH earlier. AND, when I was on it, I went to ftp sites, like at NIC.FUNET.FI! I downloaded the latest version of Linux from there. For those that don't know, that is: the university IN FINLAND where linus was when he created Linux.

        And as for the internet being big news in the early 1990s? OF COURSE! After being opened up, people got access to more stuff, and things took off, but IT WAS IGNORED! THEN, a guy in Switzerland created a product called HTTP, and things started to skyrocket! It never got very far, by todays standards, but a little company collected all the pieces, fit it together and JOKED about it having SO MANY PATCHES!!!!!!!!!! SO, they called it a-patchy server! TODAY, it is just called APACHE, and it runs 60-70% of the websites around the globe. Of course things SKYROCKETED, early 1995!

        And for those that don't know, Coca Cola was originally a SYRUP used to mix drinks in drug stores. Drug stores USED to have like little cafes that provided a sit down area, light meals, icecream, sodas, etc... Sodas were mixed using equipment much like bartenders now use for drinks. Just look at the drugstore in "it's a wonderful life". Most drug stores were a BIT fancier, but they had that basic concept.


        Coke then created a kind of FRANCHISE where BOTTLERS could buy the syrup, and sell them bottled. Apparently the idea of them owning the bottlers is relatively recent.

        Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author leilapearse
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    Great indeed!!
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