History of the Internet

Where Modern Meets Mundane: The History of the Internet in a Contemporary Culture If we are the so-called “networked society” (Kåhre, 2013, p.1), and this is the age of web culture, we have to ask ourselves if the Internet has indeed just recently jumped out of antiquity. Through a critical analysis of literature surrounding different communication types, I will endeavour to investigate which aspects of the Internet, if any, could be regarded as ‘new’. Throughout this essay, I use the word ‘Internet’ in reference to today’s multi-network communication structure proposed by Tiropanis, Hall, Crowcroft, Contractor, and Tassiulas (2015), in the western world. I have chosen to approach this complex topic in a Westernized context because I am most…

The internet attracts students, teachers, researchers, and the average individual interested in the online community, but is the internet helpful –or hurtful? Nicholas Carr in his essay “Hal and Me” argues that, “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” in result of the internet (Carr, 13). Although Carr is correct, the internet can encourage a laziness in regards to deeper reading and a resentment towards focusing for long periods of time, but the internet is a tool,…

Opportunity The internet has revolutionized the way that people communicate around the world by becoming the most preferred tool for communication. The use of the internet has exponentially increased since it was first invented (pictured to right). There are now approximately 3.4 billion internet users worldwide. Every day on…

from Japanese. The history and origin of Ainu is still unknown because there are no writings found which tell about their exact origin and history. The Ainu showed their documented appearance in the twelfth century in the dynasty of China (Yuan). The record found of people living in Sakhalin. The indigenous people of Northern Sakhalin called The Nivkh, fighting against Ainu…

The internet, and more specifically, social media, are a part of everyday life. As teenagers grow up and experience the World Wide Web, it affects how they act in social situations and how they form their opinions. Social behavior deals with the activity brought about by a stimulus that is of or relating to other people (Hartup). The internet has affected social behavior of teenagers since it was available to them, and it will continue to change their social behaviors in the future as well.…

History has shown that when new technologies have been introduced, many claim utopian ideals and fantasies about how they are going to shape the future. The words ‘life-changing’, ‘revolutionary’, and ‘radical’ are often thrown around. In 1989, Landgon Winner even coined a term describing this phenomena, “mythinformation: the almost religious conviction that a widespread adoption of computers and communications systems and communications systems along with easy access to electronic information…

As the public school system declines more and more people have been turning to homeschooling and internet schooling. Homeschooling is something that can help the parents put their own ideas and beliefs into the child’s mind other than a student’s teacher teaching topics that might possibly “ruin” the kid. Internet schooling is a good choice for homeschooled kids, it allows them to take certain classes while also still following the learning that their parents want for them. Kids could also go to…

Log files created by the web browser also store web browsing history information such as web pages visited and accessed along with dates and times of those visits (Ravi, 2007). The registry can provide evidentiary value to the digital forensic investigator as well in relation to web browser artifacts. Items such as passwords, default search provider and search engine, and the URLs typed into the web browser address bar are stored in the NTUSER.DAT file located within the NTUSER.DAT hive in the…

Where Wizards Stay Up Late (Book Review) The Internet is an amazing thing, and knowing about its origins and history is very important, and fun to learn about none the less. In this story you will find one of the best histories of the beginning of the Internet, and learn a lot more along the way. In a few short years the Internet has exploded onto the mainstream of the world, and perhaps that is for the better of mankind. Many times when someone tries to explain this technology it has lead to…

The Influence of Google and the Technology Through history, society always has a new tool that makes an important and noticeable impact on their lives. Also, Broke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld point out in their article “The Influencing Machines” that throughout history the new medium has always been feared as making people in the future stupid and unable to think for themselves. In additional, Nicholas Carr in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” explains the media and the internet changes…