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What is Internet? How and why internet begun?

Posted by on Dec.01, 2010, under Science and Technology

Internet is the latest revolution in technology for human kind in this planet. The last and the major revolutions in the dissemination of knowledge and social communication up till the present day is the internet. There are many improbable in its growth. While internet when its enthusiasts claims a sudden revolutionary status for the form of communications and for the goodwill’s of human beings , since cyberspace has opened up previously imaginable possibilities there are also grounds for some skepticism. To operating the internet involved both general and computer literacy. The origins of internet are strange and surprising. The RAND Corporation in 1960’s the most strategic think thank in US Authority trying to find a way of making communications among US Authorities secure, even in the eventually nuclear war during the cold war. The idea that was become today’s internet, and then arose within the parameters of U.S, Defense thinking. Basic idea of the internet was the consequence of the search of secure of military command, its transformation into a free community of users came from the diametrically opposite impulse. Till 1980s internet has undergone many changes. It demanded free and opens access to the net, has been partially overridden by the forces of commerce and big capital. Corporate enterprise has taken over, with Bill Gates Microsoft Corporation now controlling and making enormous revenue from a large number of personal computers through which people access the internet. Communications have been unimaginably speeded up. It has enable among other things, the formation of what are known as internet communities, networked users who communicate intensively, exchanging message and posting martial on web. In history of knowledge revolution internet is the latest discovery by human being. Many kinds of knowledge are disseminated on the internet; academic activity for instance has been greatly stimulated since web searched can often produce hundreds or even thousands of references and articles on the web when one is looking for information on particular themes. School and university students with access to the internet find it an invaluable aid as do scholars and researchers. other kind of information are also available, the net is among other things, the first place where fresh news breaks must before it printed in news papers and usually before it can make it to TV or Radio. The opportunities this provided for business and profit making were soon realized and large capital unmanageable and even radical edge of the print media could never be fully diluted, as knowledge, opinions and arguments poured out of the presses and hugely expanded the quantity of recorded thought in the world. Internet was actually begun in Pentagon for the use of defense among the military. Later on it speeded all over the world. At first internet marketed by ARPA .scientist and army man used it for their own purpose. Army man sent their message of war at war time via internet. Now a day thousands and thousands peoples using internet worldwide. Places of Print, media, radio, television are replaced by internet in many where. Some peoples are doing foreign job using internet, many where books are being reading via internet. Lastly we can say that internet brought a great revolution in modern communication and technology in the human society.

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