history of the internet

• Internet Archive and Sun Microsystems Create Living History of the Internet.

Open Storage Innovation Ensures Documents, Images, Video and other Internet-based Data Growing at Over 100 Terabytes Per Month Will Live on For Future...

• Business Wire
• March 25, 2009

• The Tech Dude: A Brief History of the Internet

Jones: The Internet has reached its TV days It's hard to believe, but just 12 years ago most people had never heard of the Internet-- even as people were busily planning the foundations of a Local Area Network, or LAN, and an Internet connection for that LAN at my college.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• September 26, 2006

• The Internet

...HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. The idea for the Internet began i...

• Encyclopedia of Management
• A-Z

• Media Metrix Chronicles the 'History' of the Internet.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999-- Measuring and Tracking the Internet's Development as a Thriving, Global Network of Two-Way Content, Co...

• Business Wire
• March 18, 1999

• Activists Use Web in Egypt Despite Shutdown ; Find Ways to Update Twitter

Egyptians continued to use the Web and social-networking tools to organize protests and communicate with the outside world over the weekend, despite the unprecedented efforts of the government to shut down the country's Internet and curtail cell phone service. The Web shutdown, described by scholars as unique in the history of the Internet, affected four of the country's five Internet service providers (ISPs), which normally handle about 90 percent of the country's Web traffic, according to BGP Monitor, a website that watches developments in international Internet traffic.

• The Washington Times
• January 31, 2011

• Postal Service Forced to Make Changes

TO THE EDITOR: The Postal Service is facing the most critical period in its history. The economic recession and increased use of the Internet have caused mail volume to drop drastically. This decline has left the Postal Service with a mail processing network that is too large for the amount of mail it now processes. Even when the economy recovers, mail volumes are not expected to return to previous peak levels.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• April 25, 2011

• May 10, 2005, Marked an Important Day in the History of the Internet Security.

TORRANCE, Calif. -- A final patent application was filed on May 10, 2005, for a technology that stops the origination and spread of mischief such as v...

• Business Wire
• June 15, 2005

• Ncaa Tournament Captures a Nation's Attention

CBS senior management dropped this bit of news on the NCAA during the first weekend of last year's NCAA Tournament. March Madness had become the most-watched live event in the history of the Internet, topping the funeral of Pope John Paul II the previous year. I didn't know how to feel about topping that event for the record," NCAA Vice President Greg Shaheen said. "But it spoke volumes about the online popularity of the tournament.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• March 15, 2007

• Close but No Reward for Many Top Players

Many, many years ago, when I was a child, there was no such thing as the Internet. That meant that in order to immerse yourself in the history of baseball, you did things such as memorizing the backs of baseball cards or memorizing the kinds of things that would appear in almanacs.

• The Columbian
• August 02, 2011

• The Fcc's Push for Network Neutrality

Although technology enhancements have made more bandwidth available through wired and wireless environments, bandwidth is not an infinite resource. Those same enhancements also allow bandwidth providers to allocate and potentially discriminate against users and types of uses. Congress has been debating Internet regulation for years. However, in recent months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has stepped to the front of the specific debate on Net Neutrality. The 107-page notice begins with a broad discussion of the history of Internet development and its corresponding history of technological challenges. It also identifies four Internet principles that have guided the FCC's interpretation of its responsibilities for Internet development.

• Information Today
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, March 2010