Can you remember a time when something wasn't immediately accessible via the Internet? A time when you forced to do your shopping in brick and morter buildings? A time before Facebook?
History of the Internet
On October 29, 1969 a studend named Charley Kline transmitted "LOGIN" from a computer in UCLA to one in Stanford. He got as far as L O before it crashed.
He was able to send the complete message an hour later.
So why was this important? Because it initiated a spark in thinkers, dreamers, and those with the technological know-how to invent HTML and HTTP languages that would allows computers to talk to one another.
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| World Wide Web in 1989 |
Since 1989 the Internet has become one of the most influential inventions of our time. It has allowed us to become closer globally and has helped shape our world views. We can learn from one another at a tremendous rate and what happens at one corner of the globe can be viewed almost immediately in another nation.
So I ask again, can you remember a time when the world wasn't at your fingertips. What has it allowed you to do?
For more information:
http://www.calendarlabs.com/holidays/international/international-internet-day.php
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/internet-day/
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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