Blog 6 – online shopping

In 1979; a UK man with the name of Michael Aldrich of Redifon Computers, invented online shopping. Aldrich demonstrated online shopping with a modified 26” colour TV and real-time transaction processing computer via a domestic telephone, from 1980 onwards his system sold in the UK with success.

In the 1980s online shopping was also used extensively in the UK and some parts of continental Europe by auto makers like: Peugeot-Talbot, Ford, Nissan and General Motors.

The world’s first Business to Business online shopping system recorded was done on March 1981 by Thomson Holidays.

The world’s first recorded Business to Consumer was on May 1984 by Gateshead TESCO.

 The world’s first recorded online home shopper was Mrs Jane Snowball of Gateshead, in England on May 1984.

In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee created the first World Wide Web server and browser.

In 1992 Charles Stack created the first online book store.

 In 1994 advances took place, like online banking, the opening of an online pizza shop by Pizza Hut.

Also in 1994, Netscape introduced SSL encryption of data transferred online, which has become essential for secure online shopping.

In 1996 eBay begun.

Blog 5 – internet/computers and education

In 1975 Apple 1 PCs are donated to schools.
In 1976 Apple 1 computer had became a popular little business.
In 1981 the first educational drill and practice programs were developed for personal computers.
In 1983 Apple 2 computer had a widespread acceptance in education.
In 1984 the Apple Macintosh computer was developed.

In 1990 Multimedia PCs was developed; schools started to use videodiscs.
In 1995 The Internet and the World Wide Web got businesses, schools, and individuals creating web pages.
In 1996 many schools decided to rewire for Internet access; a few schools install web servers and provide faculty with ways to create instructional web pages.

In 1997 to present educational software has becomes more useful and interesting for students to use and incorporate in graphics and video.

Blog 4 – new internet

In the mid 1990s, the ‘New Internet’ came.
The change of the internet to society; it’s became apart of the national vocabulary, and seem to be going to do more. Communities among business accept it, which results in service providers, consultants, books, and TV coverage. This created (FSM) Free Software Movement.

The combining of the Free Software Movement and Bulletin Board Systems, made Free Software Movement its own on the Internet. In the 1990s, Linus Torvalds wrote Linux, UNIX.

Blog 3 – IP’s and hypertext

In the early 1990s, the first address exhaustion crisis hit the internet, the solution was CIDR (which we still use) it sustains the internet by making use of IP’s (32-bit address space). The IP’s will only last for a few more years, so to make the solution last longer, they are look at IPv6 (128-bit address space)
Still, the WWW (world wide web) has been one of the best internet developments; lately. The thought of hypertext has been around for awhile; but in 1989 a team at CERN (European Centre for Particle Research) in Switzerland developed protocols for transferring hypertext, and was enhanced in the 1990’s. It was enhanced by NCSA (National Centre for Supercomputing Applications) at the University of Illinois. The result was a graphical, point-and-click hypertext browser, it made the internet easier and a ‘explosion’ in Web sites.

Blog 2 – NSF / NSFNET

In the late 1980′s the develpment of PC and LAN technology was huge; for its sub-netting technology.
 NSF – National Science Foundation – started the Supercomputer Centres program. NSF’s idea to make supercomputer assets available by the best means, which was constructing 5 supercomputer centres around the country; building a network to link them – with possible users. NSF started to base the network on internet protocols; NSFNET was then created. NSFNET was than the foundation of the US till 1995.

Blog 1 – the first internet

The internet was a project in the Cold War; it was to produce a communications network that would be immune to a nuclear attack. In 1969, US created ARPANET – ARPANET was before the internet, it was a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the Federal Government’s Department of Defence; ARPANET allowed the government and research institutions to share information.

New connections were soon added to the network, ‘links’;

• 23 in 1971
• 111 in 1977
• Almost 4-million in 1994

The network’s size got large and so did its capabilities; within the first 25yrs, the internet added more features – file transfer, email, Usenet news and eventually HTML.