1) The internet…

In the earliest stage of the foundation of the first connected computerized devices using circuit switches no one would have ever thought that these connected devises will affect the entire humanity.

Many years and many people have contributed into this development and the fast increase in these days technology, staring sometime in 60s from an 18 year old French Blaise Pascal who have invited a device called Pascaline (now called calculator) that helped his father with his work, this devise used a base ten that have eight variable knobs used to sum eight means; this is a very early stage of how these days processors works;

Also the begging of the telecommunications in the 70s with people like Charles Morrison, Wheatstone, and Bell who have contributed to the development of the telegraph and the telephone. 

The first evolution of the networks was then started by the US department of defense for military purposes, and then the idea has been adopted by scientists, researchers then universities and finally the private sectors, rapidly these millions and millions of computers connected together using fibre optics, copper wires, RF signals, infra red, Bluetooth, GSM or other wireless technology created a network called Wide Area Network or WAN forming the Internet, this incredibly large network has been an important entity in everyday life. 

 

 

My first TV-connected PC 1989

Computers and smart devices are used by many individuals, different cultures and different backgrounds forming a huge amount of online societies who depends on this network for everyday life.

 For most of us the net is a social networking place which means communicating with people in different locations around the world, they can interact using emails blogs, forums and chatting..This connectivity has surprising positive influences on societies

Social networking has forced and shaped society with the technology that also has negative implication; an example would be the impact of online shopping sites and online auctions on the physical shopping malls and physical activities.  

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~ by sherifeldin on January 21, 2007.

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