History of the Internet

Watching the youtube video brought me back to first semester last year when I took a class called "The Information Society". This class was the first introduction I had to the internet and its history(which made me interested in CA346). Terms like ARPANET and packet switching are familiar to me from last year, but over time I had forgotten the details to what I learned. To see how each process is played out through the diagrams and animations helped remind me of the things I did learn.The video did a good job to visually explain the terms we have been learning and reading about. But I also learned new concepts and facts about the internet such as what TCP/IP is. This is a term that comes up in everyday life that I had never thought about its meaning but has such a significant role on my daily activities. I have sat on the phone with internet service providers repeating numbers and codes to fix my problems, but never knew how the number combination's are what keeps me linked to a service and keeps my internet running. Like the TCP/IP, many other processes that took so much development and research seem so simple and minimal to our society today. It is interesting to see how things are developed and the on going process it takes to get to the final product. As we have seen the internet is a new technology that rapidly grew but always innovating and finding ways to improve.