Who Invented the Internet - What Is the Future?
Before the Internet became the Internet, it was called ARPAnet. ARPA-Who? Yes, it sure is a fun name. Especially considering what the internet is today, covering literally every aspect of our lives. ARPAnet is the abbreviation for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.In the late 1960s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Department of Defense went on a mission. They tried to find a way to make communication and data exchange easier, but without using the old "circuit-switched" telephone method; for voice and data calls. This method can only send linearly end-to-end from one to the other.
The ARPAnet that emerged in the past, primitive as it was in its early days (late 1970s, early 1980s), used packet switching, allowing communications to be sent and received and distributed across multiple sites. Thus the TCP/IP communication protocols were born.For that, you can thank Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, often dubbed the father of the internet. What started as an advocacy project quickly spread to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and academia, enabling real-time information sharing. In 1989, ARPAnet was closed and replaced by NSFnet. The First Commercial Use of the Internet The first public and commercial use of the Internet dates back to mid-1989 when CompuServe and MCImail added an email service for anyone who wanted it. PSInet then sets up the company part on the Internet backbone.Then, in the late 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee developed hypertext transmission protocols that should look familiar to everyone; http. Then he came; HTML, UseNet and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The internet was on and only in their wildest dreams did they envision that there are now just over 4 billion people online worldwide – soon they will all be online and affecting their lives in one way or another. The Internet has forever changed the way we do business messages to which you can reply Y or N (yes or no), SPAM would have a tremendous impact on this nonsense, if only to make it 1000 times worse.Before SPAM blocks, users wore letters from the "delete" field; Keys within a month of purchasing a new computer.The Internet has accelerated the flow of information and business to such an extent that Bill Gates wrote a book in 1999; company @ speed of thought. Of course, by the mid-1990s almost every reputable business, big or small, had or was building a website. Why not have an online brochure available 24/7 without having to print out information and mail it to potential clients? Yes, the printing industry suffered, printers across the country went bankrupt, and the film processing industry disappeared almost simultaneously with the advent of digital cameras.
Major Evolutionary Changes in Business Use of the Internet
Yes, the Internet has changed everything in our world, but nowhere is the change more dramatic than in the business world.From 1990 to 2000, in 10 years, everything changed. It was a chaotic time, but also one with great opportunities. There is always a chance for change. The faster the change, the greater the chaos, the crisis and the opportunities. Below is a short list of some of the paradigm shifts that the Internet has brought to business.
Corporate email has become the preferred method of written communication
Companies of all sizes have created websites to compete on an equal footing
Interactive websites have enabled customers and companies to do business online
Marketing portals Industry websites with information about Sectors of the economy
Competition in search engines developed rapidly to meet consumers' immediate information needs
Bulletin boards, then blogs, provided two-way, open and transparent information for business communications
Social and corporate social networks began to emerge
The whole world went mobile with smartphones - behind them the Internet disappeared - the rest belongs to history
Today, information from all over the world is available to you anytime, anywhere.Soon, SpaceX's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network system, Starlink, will provide internet service anywhere in the world, and anyone with a mobile device will be able to access the internet. Well that changes everything and here we go again. Are you ready for the next wave of opportunity/chaos aboard the next satellite-launched rocket? It's already there and deployed. It will be online in 2020.Again, the internet doesn't disappoint - the only constant on the internet is change. Your business should continue to embrace these new technologies.
What's next? What's the next big thing in business informatics?
This is easy to predict as industry and the world's largest companies are already preparing for it. Ask yourself if you want to connect the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the cloud in real-time and make all this secure data and information available to anyone, anywhere and on any mobile device be?
Imagine managing a factory, supply chain, construction project, hospital, university, financial institution or multiple retail stores and having instant access to the right information you need. Imagine all of these systems integrated, systematized and optimally configured for maximum performance – anytime, anywhere and need-to-know; Information for each team member in real time.
From a business perspective, the Internet just got 100 times more useful, but only if you embrace these changes and opportunities