So you like to use the internet to: send email, exchange pictures, post to Facebook, send birthday cards, download games, do online banking, check in with your favorite quilting site, buy books on Amazon.com, send Tweets on Twitter, search for movies on the Internet Movie Database, use Google to find out about gardening, stream movies via Netflix, check sports scores or write a blog entry? I guess that means that you are a bona fide internet user! Congratulations.
And now...that you use the internet, wouldn't it be at least a bit interesting to learn about how it came into being? Indeed it would be - its an interesting story filled with lots of technology, history, big names in computing, government sponsorship and much more!
Click on this link from the Internet Society for a very comprehensive (they call it 'brief') History of the Internet. The article includes a timeline, has sections on internet concepts, proving the ideas, documentation and a very extensive list of footnotes.
Regular readers will not be surprised to see this next link from Wikipedia. This Wikipedia entry goes to an article titled, 'History of the Internet'. Similar but different than the prior article. One interesting link from the Wikipedia article goes to 'External Links'....
Another interesting article come from the Computer History Museum - and includes a very interesting (and extensive) timeline of the internet. Cool stuff - and easy to digest and read.
Finally, click on this link from History.com for an article titled, 'Invention of the Internet' - while fairly brief, it introduces readers to some of the major players and the basics of the invention of the internet.
Enjoy the links - and of course - enjoy the web and the internet.
Regards,
Stu
