Andrew Blum And The Internet

Janet Abbate’s Inventing the Internet explores the history of the Internet as "a tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players." (3) Abbate’s writing concentrates on the Internet’s development through social and cultural influences. The book explores the evolution of the Internet from ARPANET to global networks. The Internet’s expansion has existed within an interworking web of innovators; government and military, computer scientists, graduate students, researchers, cable and phone companies, network users, etc. The details given by Abbate affirm the book’s claim that the Internet was not

The internet has revolutionized the modern world like no other invention has before, except perhaps, electricity. The internet allows sharing and collaboration to take place between people on opposite sides of the globe. Vinton G. Cerf, often called the “Father of the Internet”, admits that when the original idea of an “intranet” was in its infancy, there was no possible way to imagine all of the ways we would come to use it (NDTV, 2013).

Carr explains that the net has become essential to internet users work, school, or social lives, and often with all three. And there are, of course, many people who do not use the internet at all, either because they can’t afford it or because they don’t want to. The scope of its use unprecedented, even by the standards of the mass media of the twentieth century. The net commands our attention with far greater insistency than our television

When watching "What is the Internet, really?" video I was surprised by how physical the Internet can really be. Previously I had thought that the Internet was just a wave full of personal data and files roaming somewhere out in space just like Mr. Blum. Except the internet turned out to be this little black box with a blinking red light. The internet was really just

Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives--or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts--as the Internet does today.

21st century man has pondered in thought on a very important question that unconsciously affects their lives at every moment: Is the Internet our master, or a simple tool that we control? To the optimist, this very question is a complete joke. In their eyes, how can such a sweet, innocent tool of exploring specific evidence, paying one’s bill, and social networking become our master when we, as humans, created its very existence? To the skeptics, this question HAS to be answered. To them, it’s essential that we as a collective unit decide if the internet is controlling us so we can abandon it and have our mental capacities cleared up from

The year is 1998 I am sitting at my desk listening to a dial tone followed by a collection of strange beeps and screeches as my modem connects my desk top computer to the internet for the first time. This seeming long and complicated process was one of the most exciting experiences in this young adolescent girl’s life, it was the day I became Spiderman. Nineteen years later this same girl experiences internet in a very different way; there is no dial tone, no waiting on a connection, now the internet is an instant process that connects different types of devices to provide instant and nearly constant access to an entire virtual world known as the World Wide Web which we carry in the palm of our hands. We have the internet in our hands, on

We are taken hostage through internet. It channelizes our minds and excludes the important things in life. Internet is a network providing a variety of information and communication facilities. Throughout internet we get distracted, leaving our loved ones behind. It's as if we are in a new world losing precious time.

The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form the US Department of Defense's communications systems. Fearing the consequences of nuclear attack, there was no central computer holding vast amounts of data, rather the information was dispersed across thousands of machines. A set of rules, of protocols, known as TCP/IP was

While watching this presentation over what the internet really is, I learned many things. There were ideas that I have never thought

The internet operates under what is called the “end-to-end principle.” This is where “features are implemented as close to the end points of the network as possible.”4 It is often described as a “dumb network.” Much like how a water system provides the same amount to all users through pipes regardless of what its used for, only the end user decides and controls how a “dumb network” is utilized. Some claim that this is a major reason that the internet was so successful. However, it is also pointed out that internet is already not “a level playing field,” because of the advantages of bigger companies who can afford more robust servers and high-bandwidth services.1

The data is then sent back through the system to the original user. The information that is on the data coming back could have came from a wide array of sources such as books, financial markets, embedded chips or even made up by someone trying to fool the user. The History? The Internet is first

In the Andrew Blum "What is the Internet, really?" video, the audience is introduced to what the internet actually is. The narrator starts his speech talking about the way he felt about spending less time outside since he was spending more time in front of his computer screen. He talked about the way the internet has “no physical reality of its own” and how he struggled in making a connection between the real world and the internet. He also mentions a personal story about the day his internet broke and found out that a squirrel was “chewing on his internet”. He realized his internet was broken because the squirrel was chewing on the internet cables. He then states that the incident with the squirrel made him wonder what would happen if he

The Internet - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The internet is a computer based global information system. It is composed of many interconnected computer networks. Each network may link thousands of computers enabling them to share information. The internet has brought a transformation in many aspects of life.

In today’s world 3 billion humans are on the internet but there are also 4 billion people that are not. In the beginning of my study on the future of the internet, I asked myself this question: is it possible that everyone could be online and globally connected? Then I asked myself how, if everyone is online, the future of the internet change the experience of everyday life? Looking back, the internet is still a relatively new phenomenon as it was first created back in the 1960’s by a computer scientist named J.C.R Licklider. He envisioned a network of computers, called the galactic network, which would allow humans to be able to share information instantly. Overtime this is how the internet developed, as many of these networks that shared