History of the Internet

Melih Bilgil's video was interesting when thinking about how far the internet has come and how much it has transformed human culture. I am a heavy internet user and a multi-tasker. I'll be on Facebook while writing emails and chatting on Skype. However, it wasn't too long ago when computers used batch processing and were only capable of doing one task at a time. I also found it interesting how much foreign conflict, competition, and academia ignited the rise in the internet and how many nations aided in the development of concepts of the internet such as Cyclades. Like Lauren, I found the combination of the military, commercial, and scientific networks to create what we have today is quite amazing. Usually when you think of historical events like the USSR's launching of Sputnik 1 or the Cuban Missile Crisis you don't associate it with the advancement of the internet but in fact it led to the creation of DARPA (changing the way we transfer, gather and manage existing knowledge and research) and ARPANET, and the move from a centralized network to a distributed network. The internet changed significantly in what it could do, but also changed in terms of its use. Although created and developed by the military, today it is used by people of all backgrounds in a personalized matter; online, we can shop, pay bills, watch/read the news, go to school, and research anything that pertains to our interests. Overall, this video was good in depicting the historical content of the internet providing a lot of facts, dates, and developments. It provoked a lot of thought on how the internet works and how it has advanced in the last 50 years. However, I think this video provided so much information and so many facts that, to me, were hard to remember and/or grasp.