Essay - Important Technological Advances in Recent Years - World Wide Web...

Important Technological Advances in Recent Years - World Wide Web

This work will answer a series of questions beg*****ning with the broad question: How do social, technological, and economic changes impact the individual? The overall question of ***** ***** is: What ***** one of the most important technological advances in recent years? ***** subtopic ***** the work is: The introduction of the World Wide Web. Finally, coming to a specific ***** about ***** *****: How did the introduction of the World ***** Web change ***** way individuals acquire and share information? The ***** to this question will be found as a result of exploring the hypothesis: The introduction of the World Wide Web helped make ***** Internet so much e*****ier to use and understand for the average per*****n that it has *****come ***** most popular and widely ********** resource to search for and obtain information.

***** World ***** Web, otherwise known as the internet began really ***** the invention of ***** computer, way back in 1962. The computer ***** 1962 looked and acted nothing like the computer of today ***** they took up inordinate amounts ***** space ***** processed information slowly and lim*****edly through amaze of complicated single line programming. Initially science ***** government agencies developed what was called ARPANET named for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded many aspects of ***** project was designed to help remote scientists access programs and information for research. This system of networks with a maximum processing speed ***** 50Kbs in 1967, became what is now k*****n as the ***** or World Wide Web, ***** many ***** of development ***** eventually privatization. In 1981 IBM begins to market the first ***** its personal computers that are small enough for individual use, and in 1984 Apple markets the Macintosh personal computer. The introduction of these two elements plus the advances in communication over telephone l*****e technology created exponential growth that began in *****, *****n in *****dustry and eventually in to the homes of *****dividual users. By the late 1980s ***** growth of the system ***** so great that originators could not keep track of it in any substantive way ***** by 1992 the WWW.holdsa strong pos*****ion as a technological phenomena that effects m***** millions of peop***** a d*****y in some substantive way;

***** number ***** networks exceeds 7,500 and the number of *****s connected passes 1,000,000....The challenge to the telephone network's dominance as ***** b*****is for communicating between people is seen for the first time; ***** Internet is no longer just for machines to talk to each other...The WWW.burstsinto the world ***** the growth of the Internet explodes like a supernova. What had been doubling ***** year, now doubles in three months. What began as an ARPA experiment has, in the span ***** just 30 *****s, become a part of the world's popular culture. (Computer History Museum "Internet History" 2006, NP)

It is safe to say that initially and even late into the 1990s the WWW.wasutilized by