Everyone all around the world have been using the internet to do all kinds of different functions; write up programs, holding data, and help businesses keep track of important information. In 1969, the internet was created, but back then it was not being used to communicate with other people yet, not until 1975. (ethan zuckerman history of the internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2QdEj8UjBc).
Back in the 1960′s, the United States government’s Department of Defense was working on a project that to create a non-centralized network designed to survive partial outages (ie. nuclear war) and still function when parts of the network were down or destroyed. This project was called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), created by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency established in 1969 to provide a secure and survivable communications network for organizations engaged in defense-related research. According to what the text says this project of the government was to ensure that if something went wrong and could not start to work again, the rest of the system would still keep on working. (http://wdvl.internet.com/Internet/History/)
In 1990′s, the web had blossomed and expanded. HTML has extened in a number of ways that the web depends on Web page authors and vendors sharing the same conventions for HTML. These differernt people help to keep the web working and add new information for others to see. (http://wdvl.internet.com/Internet/History/)
To think the internet was so small back then, and then grows into this big system everyone in the world can use to look up information, talk to each other online, and add information of their own to share. The web has changed so much over the years, how much more can it change or veen improved, only time will tell.
