The Internet, The best thing since sliced bread!

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The Internet, The best thing since sliced bread!

Or is it?

The subject that I am going to discuss is the Internet, and if it is the most important thing that has happened this century, or if it is a ticking time bomb waiting until it explodes and society is destroyed.         But before I start I will give you the background information of the creation of the Internet.

In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into orbit and starts the space race.  The United States fears that the Soviets will become even more advanced than them and so establish an advanced research project to try to overtake the USSR in the technology and science department.  In 1962 Paul Baran Rand of the Rand Corporation (a government agency) is commissened by the U.S. Air Force to study and investigate how the military could maintain control of its nuclear arms after a nuclear attack and how it could order a counter attack. He came up with the idea of a packet switched network (the break down of information into diagrams).  Then in 1972 Ray Tomlinson creates the First Email program.  The Advanced Research Projects Agency is renamed The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.  Following this in 1976 The Atlantic packet Satellite network is born.  This network linked the United States with Europe.  It used INTELSAT, these satellites were owned by a consortium of countries.  In early 1979 the creation of BITNET, by IBM introduced the “store and forward” network.  It was used for emails.  Then in 1981        National Science Foundation created a network called CSNET for institutions.

 Afterward in 1983 Internet Activities Board created.

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 In 1984 U.S. Government Arpanet is divided into two networks.  MILNET for the military and ARPANET for the advanced research component.

The department of defence disbands the ARPANET and it is replaced by NSFNET in 1990.

Following this in 1994 Pizza Hut Offers Pizza ordering on its web page and the first cyber bank opens.

What's more in 1995 a $50 annual fee is imposed on domains, excluding Government and Educational domains.

Next in 1996 10,000,000 people are on the Internet.  Furthermore in the year 2000 over 35,000,000 people are on the Internet and it is estimated that 1 in ...

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