The History of Internet from 1980 to Present, By Ways of Cultural Artifacts of Each Period
The internet can broadly be defined as a global system of the interconnected mainframe, individual and the wireless computer networks, which utilize the protocol suite to connect many devices to the whole world. There have been a rapid development and adoption of the internet since the year 1980 to date. For instance, the overall history of the internet in this period started by the general expansion of the access to ARPANET in 1981, which occurred when (CSNET) the Computer Science Network was funded by (NSF) the National Science Foundation to perform the expansion process. However, in the year 1982, the introduction of internet protocol suite was reinforced on ARPANET as the proper standard networking protocol. Inclusion, at the beginning of 1980s several universities were funded by NSF that enhanced the establishment of the centers for national supercomputing as well as boosted the interconnectivity of the NSFNET project in 1986. Thus, this progress stabilized the network access of the United States’ supercomputer sites, which empowered the reliability of the education and research organizations. Also, in the late 1980s, there was a significant emergence of the Internet service providers, which was centrally commercialized (Hart & Fuller, 2013).
In 1990, the whole ARPANET program was decommissioned, and various private connections of internet emerged in most of the American cities, which were officially regarded as commercial entities. Further, the NSFNET was immediately dismantled that enabled the removal of the last limitations on the internet application to operate commercial traffic. However, by 2000, there was a high increase of 51% in the internet carriage of the comprehensive information that flowed through the two-way telecommunication. Therefore, this strategic development continued until to date where there have been several Internet evolutions, for example, the emergence of Facebook in 2004, Twitter, Google techniques, and blogging sites, which are being used for several socioeconomic purposes (Benbow, 2005). Thus, all internet devices were and are still being used to promote cultural diversity in the entire world.
References
Hart, M., & Fuller, M. (2013). A brief history of the Internet. Champaign, Ill.: Project Gutenberg.
Benbow Mary, D. (2005). Using the Internet as Cultural Artifacts: Oxford University: Print
