Coolest Thing Ever
13 Jan
What is the coolest thing ever? In our opinion is no the cell phone, the cars, the airplanes or the satellite television, is something more, something that offers free access to information for over 6 billions people, something that make us closer to each other, something that lets us communicate and something that made us free to express whatever and whenever we want and that thing is the INTERNET. The history of the Internet goes back in the early 1960s. In this period of time the people had a great and brilliant idea to create something that allows computers to share information in the military field and scientific developments. In 1962 J.C.R. Licklider was the first man to propose a global network of computers and at the end of 1962 he tried to develop it. The first connection from a computer to another was made in 1965 when Lawrence Roberts was able to connect a California computer to a Massachusetts computer thanks to dial-up telephone technology. After this test, Lawrence Roberts started to develop his plan of ARPANET in 1966. The beginning of the coolest thing ever officially started in 1969 when they succeeded in connecting 4 computers from University of Utah, UCSB, Stanford Research Institute and UCLA – all universities are in the southwestern US. The connection between the computers worked great, so in 1970 Cal., MIT, Systems Development Corp, BBN and Harvard were added and in 1971 Case-Western Reserve U, Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford were added.
