History of the internet

Hey everyone,
I think I may be a blog behind so ill talk about my last lecture. Last lecture we covered ‘the history of the internet’ and ’virtual philosophy’. Ill just cover ‘the history of the internet for today’.
Many myths plague the internet, myths such as we are experiencing an epochal transformation that changes our common beliefs about time, space and power. There is particular interest in the golden age, the golden age is the idea in looking back in a period of history where everything was bright and beautiful. If there ever was a gold age of the internet, ended with the dot.com crash in 2000 and the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11 2001, ushering the age of digital surveillance. Digital mythology continues to generate the memes of an Internet Golden Age that has shifting spatial and temporal boundaries.

Samuel Butler in the late 19th century predicted the development of the ‘machine language’ and computer code would become ‘a speech as intricate as our own’. This development began in the 1940’s but did not really come to fruition until 30 years later in Silicon Valley. In 1959 a program called sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe was demonstrated. This integrated circuit cost $1000 back in 1959 costs less than $10 today. In 1968 the word processor was demonstrated, it is now still a common computer application. The late 1960’s recorded a Swiss computer scientist developed the first of many computer programming languages. His first language was called Pascal. 1970 was the year that Fairchild Semiconductor introduced a 256-bit RAM chip. 1K RAM chip and the 4004, a 4-bit microprocessor was introduced by Intel during the late 1970’s. Two years later came the 8008, an 8-bit microprocessor. The role of Silicon Valley was the incubator of consumer-directed digital technologies. Heres a timeline of 1970: Intel Inside
Mid 1960’s - Third generation computers came into being
1971- Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data
1971- Intel released first microprocessor
1975- The Altair was released, it was easy and affordable for the small but growing hackers community

It is predicted the future of the internet will be like a television with thousands of channels, not just hundreds. The mouse will just become another remote control.


Sorry i couldnt go inot too much detail, 300 words isnt enough to outline the history of the internet.