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What Have We Done?The Internet As Global Critical
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By Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale
Without a doubt, the Internet has had a profound effect on almost every aspect of our
lives. The formation of the Internet has changed the way we do business, communicate,
entertain, retrieve information and even educate ourselves. Many have claimed credit
for “inventing” or “creating”
the Internet (insert your favorite
Al Gore joke here), but it
didn’t spring fully-formed out
of some scientists’ heads – nor
did it simply grow, powered
by the mysterious magic of the
marketplace.
Although ARPANET is said
to have fathered the Internet
back in 1969, the actual birth
of the network as we know
it happened in 1984 when 1000 networked computers converted, en masse, to the
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) – a suite of protocols designed
specifically to support multiple simultaneous communications.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the