The evolution of the Internet, an epoch making discovery, has revolutionized the various aspects of our life. It has brought the whole world beneath the canopy of its networks and provides support for nearly everything whatever we want, from education, business to all sorts of entertainments. In addition to it, the cost of affording an Internet connection has become much low thus now the public demands for it, are at the apex. But the condition was different, a few more years ago when I applied for it. It was then not so much cheap, so was not easy to get.
It was the third day I got the connection. After returning from the school and having a short nap, I turned on my PC and accessed the net. I was surfing the websites pointlessly. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Mom went to open the door, and it was Sumit who entered the room.
Let us be introduced with Sumit. He was one of the most ambitious and fashionable guys of our class. Whatever his position was in the class but he did not care. He always loved to fancy himself as a born leader and liked to poke his blunt nose into everyone’s personal affairs and to dump a number of useless comments and advices. And in my case too, there was no exemption, he always used to give knowledge to me. So, seeing his arrival my mood went off. Really he was too bland for me. Knowledge is good. But if anyone starts giving knowledge in everyday, every hour, every minute, and even in every second, then it becomes too hard to bear. I don’t know what happens in case of you but I don’t like these types of banal guys.
By the way, he entered my room.
“Hello! Good afternoon!” he greeted me.
“Yep, Good afternoon! Welcome!” I replied.
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing serious, just surfing net pointlessly and thinking to go for chatting”
I did a blunder saying that I was about to go for chatting. He caught the point.
“Don’t waste the time doing such hell and foolish stuffs like chatting that result into wastage of time and abuse of dad’s hard earned money.” He told in such a shrill voice that mom got the note that I was chatting.
“Always try to utilize the Internet in proper ways”, he advised, as if he was my grandpa.
“See, I have returned from school just an hour ago. Thus it is my leisure so I was looking for some entertainments and usually I use Internet seriously especially in case of study.” I shot back gently.
“Well! You are using Internet. Hope it is providing a great aid for your study. But do you know anything about the history of the Internet?” he chuckled.
I certainly did not know anything and did not have any intention to know from him because I realized that he was searching an opportunity to rain down knowledge over me under this pretext. So I pretended not to hear him. But the tiger got the smell of some fresh blood. Ignoring me he continued,
“It is better to start from grass root level. Do you know what is a network? It is nothing but a number of communicating nodes such as computers, telephones etc. Two or more intercommunicating networks form an internet. And one of the most notable internets is our so-called Internet that attaches the whole world with our personal computers. The antecedent of the Internet was ARPANET, the first network developed in 1969 by an organization, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). It was implemented to establish communication between four major computers of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah. It was J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, who proposed the first computer network and in 1973, Ray Tomlinson of BBN developed the first e-mail program for ARPANET…”
“How did you know these?” I asked interrupting him, as it seemed to be interesting to me.
“Actually I got these facts from Internet. Last year, I was assigned an essay on Internet. That was why I had to study a lot about it. So I took the helps from Internet. These facts are really very interesting, aren’t they”?
“Yes, definitely” I appreciated him, as then I got melted because, his lecture truly created some interest in me. I continued asking, “Can you remember those websites?”
“Yes, You can check, http://www.walthowe.com. Not only the history, but also several other interesting things are available there, such as definitions of several Internet related terms etc and many more. You can get a number of websites if you do search.”
Sumit had given me the website http://www.walthowe.com. It is really a nice website and if you are looking for an abridged version of the history of the Internet then it is the best for you. Along with the history, here you will get an Internet glossary that provides wide lists of interesting terms and definitions. And if you are searching for a website where you can get the history in full details then do hit the followings:
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/index.shtml
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html
If you have anymore website on this topic, that you think very well to benefit us and want to share with us then do post a comment mentioning the URL of the website.
Anyway, Do visit and enjoy these sites and enrich your knowledge bank and keep in touch with my blog to fetch numerous interesting websites from later posts. Good Bye.
