The Internet-Informative Reading

Last year on October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs passed away and India launched a new personal computer for $60 called Aakash.

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LESSON:

From the abacus to virtual 3D systems, mankind has spent centuries in the quest of making computing easier. A computer is nothing more than any other device that has been fashioned to speed up numeric quantifying and record keeping. Computers are designed to do what the user desires. Your computer is not the Internet; your computer carries the Internet. As we discussed in prior lessons, the Internet is accessed by many devices other than the computer, such as cell phones, game consoles, etc.

What we now know as the Internet was funded by ARPAnet, which means Advance Research Projects Agency network. The purpose for this network was to expediently share scientific discoveries with educators. The first message was sent via the net in 1969 by a programmer, Charley Kline from UCLA to a host computer at the Stanford Research Institute; the University of California and the University of Utah round out the four initial participants to access the Internet.

Today, Google boasts a billion daily searches on its browser. The goal of the Internet Society is to assist in the provision of Internet access to seven billion people.