The Internet
Today the Internet is everywhere (you're using it right now!)
The Internet is pivotal to most processes around the world today. From businesses to communication it's an essential part of life.
Globalization and the Internet
Globalization is the increasing connection between the world's economies, cultures, and populations. The Internet is a huge factor in globalization, as it connectects all of these!
Social Media
Social media has boosted connection between different cultures and populations exponentially. On popular social media like Facebook and Youtube, you can consume content from places around the world. Watching a Youtube video about Korean fashion, then styling your own closet around that is a great example of the globalization of culture!
Online Businesses
Online businesses have boosted connections between both economies and cultures. For example people from the US may buy a Japanese anime figure on Amazon, connecting both the cultures and the economies of these countries. Some economies may rely on the sale of goods to other countries, for example China, that produces many goods sold to America via online businesses.
How Was the Internet Made?
Now of course we understand the importance of the Internet but who made it? Why?
Who invented it?
Now I could simply say that it was three guys named Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and Robert Kahn, but I'm going to tell you a bit about each of them, and their contributions!
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with making many aspects of the Internet! He invented most of these in 1989 while working at CERN and opened them to public in 1993.
He made HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the coding language in using to make this webiste! He also made the WWW and the HTTP, extremely important parts of the Internet!
The WWW, or the Web, or the World Wide Web, or whatever you want to call it, is an integral part to how the Internet works today. The WWW is an information system (basically people and computers that proccess info). This information system allows easy and user-friendly content sharing. Before the Web the internet was entirely text based, and was really only accessible by techies, nerds, hobbyists, and IT specialists. This is very different to todays Internet, where even gramps can google and text.
The WWW isn't the WWW without HTTP, or HyperText Transfer Protocol. You might recognize these silly little letters from web addresses, and thats because HTTP is how you access webpages and other info, it's how you're accessing this website right now! In order for your computer to access my website it needs a special ID, your IP address. Your computer shows your IP address to the other computer that contains my website and requests the website. The other computer looks at the ID and if it is correct, it sends the website to your computer, and displays it to you!
Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn
What Tim Berners-Lee created wouldn't be possible without what Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn made, the TCP/IP. The TCP/IP, also known as the Internet Protocol suite or the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is basically the directions for how the info should be sent over the Web.
The IP address is simply the address and return address to send the info.
The TCP is how the connection is established. It makes sure the devices properly establish the connection, as well as ensures the data is received and none is lost.
Info being sent over the Internet is basically mail and the TCP/IP is basically the postal system and the info it uses!