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- Vaal University Of Technology (VUT)
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The Internet, World Wide Web and E-CommerceThe first long distance
transmission between two
computers occurred on
October 29, 1969 when
developers under the direction
of Dr. Leonard Kleinrock sent
the word “login” from the
campus of UCLA to Stanford
Research Institute in Menlo
Park, California, a distance of
over 350 miles. The United
States Department of Defense
created and funded ARPA Net
(Advanced Research Projects
Administration), an
experimental network which
eventually became known as
the Internet. ARPA Net began with just four nodes or sites, a very
humble start for today’s Internet. Initially, the Internet was confined
to use by universities, government agencies, and researchers. Users
were required to type commands (today we refer to this as
“command line”) in order to communicate and transfer files. The
first e-mail messages on the Internet were sent in the early 1970s as
a few very large companies expanded from local networks to the
Internet. The computer was now evolving from a purely
computational device into the world of digital communications.
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee developed a simpler way for researchers
to share information over the Internet, a concept he called the
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World Wide Web.
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This invention became the catalyst for the growth
of the Internet as a way for businesses to share information about
themselves. As web browsers and Internet connections became the
norm, companies rushed to grab domain names and create
websites.
In 1991 the National Science
Foundation, which governed
how the Internet was used,
lifted restrictions on its
commercial use. Corporations
soon realized the huge potential of a digital marketplace on the
Internet and in 1994 both eBay and Amazon were founded. A mad
rush of investment in Internet-based businesses led to the dot-com
boom through the late 1990s, and then the dot-com bust in 2000.
The bust occurred as investors, tired of seeing hundreds of
companies reporting losses, abandoned their investments. An
important outcome for businesses was that thousands of miles of
Internet connections, in the form of fiber optic cable, were laid
around the world during that time. The world became truly “wired”
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