The History of the Internet

The use of internet has spread like wild fire in the last ten years. It has become a part of everyday life for many Canadian citizens. It is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and surely ¡°the¡± medium of the future. The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. Traditional barriers to the exchange and interaction of information were eliminated as this new communication technology developed.
As we all know, invention is rarely the isolated product of a lone scientist or engineer. Instead, every significant technology in the modern world is the product of a long history of numerous people and events. ¡°The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s that saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields.¡± (By Walt Howe, Manager of the Delphi Navigating the Net and Publishing on the Web Forums)
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