Sunday, 26 April 2015

History of the internet


  • The internet stands for interconnected node networks.
  • It was designed by Darpa- company who does work for US Government 
  • They invented it for America to communicate in the event that nuclear war struck - Defence communication system 
  • They wanted to get a message from A to point B
  • Sky net is a system of networks that can't be taken down 
  • It was never designed to work the way it does
  • First thing sent across the internet "hello :-)" - realised they could speak to each other quickly - fastest telecommunications had ever been 
  • All technology is all 0's & 1
  • Fastest wire connection 10 or 15 times faster than wireless
  • All of data is stored online on servers
  • First search engine used meta tags - in the source code are tags that have words - first search engines used to search through tags to find what you were looking for - would have to type key words when creating a website.
  • First film marketing used meta tags
  • Google - largest repository in the world
  • Server farms all around the world
  • Tags can find what type of movies you like to watch so they can suggest you ads on other servers e.g. Facebook.
  • They can see what websites are being accessed the most.
  • Gives information with your accounts so the media can suit you wants/needs.

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