EMS - U1A5 - Computers & the Internet

Here's a map of the internet as it first started in 1969. You can see the original 4 sites (or nodes), 3 of which are in California (UCLA - University of California at Los Angeles; UCSB - University of California at Santa Barbara; SRI - Stanford Research Institute) and the 4th at the University of Utah.

And here's the same map of the internet 26 short years later in 1995.

And finally, here it is 10 years later in 2005. We can only expect this web to encompass the entire planet before too long.

With such a massive change in such a short time (in comparison, it took reading/writing 1000s of years to spread across the globe as completely as has the internet) it is obvious that some growing pains would occur. Some claim that we're still right square in the middle of said growing pains, and that the problems and pitfalls of today's www will be solved/forgotten in another generation.

In any event, that's what you'll spend time working on for this assignment. Enjoy the journey and ask questions.

NOTE: The video you will use for this assignment is relatively fast moving and quiet, so you may have to pause it to write down an answer, and then continue. OK? OK. You've been warned.