- Answer the purely factual questions, as comments to this blog post.
- Think about the questions that call for your opinion, and
- Answer them, too, as comments to this post.
Here are the questions:
What was the first message transmitted on the system we now know as the Internet? Why was it so short?
Who developed the Internet and what purposes did they use it for? Who owns the Internet now? How has it changed?
Why has Finland declared Internet access a legal right for its citizens? Do you think it should be in the U.S.? Why (or why not)?
HINT: You'll find some of this in John Vivian. You'll find some of it in an Oct. 29, 2009, National Geographic story by Ker Than titled "Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System" and you'll find some of it on your own.
10 comments:
The first message sent via email in the internet required for both computers to be logged on at the same time. I haven't found why it was so short. From what I have found it says tech no one really owns the internet i could be looking passed it. The internet has completely changed the way business works in the world. It gives the chance of spreading to every corner in every area with a click of a mouse.
I found an article on the legal access for Finland
"Finland has worked hard to develop an information society and a couple of years ago we realised not everyone had access," she said.
It is believed up to 96% of the population are already online and that only about 4,000 homes still need connecting to comply with the law.
In the UK internet penetration stands at 73%."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10461048
ps... sorry i am late last nights wind storm blew out my internet and cable
Don't apologize! You're the first - and, so far, the only - one to post ... how many extra credit points do you think that ought to be worth?
:)
I shouldn't give this away, but here goes: The first message was so short because the system crashed after they got the first two letters of their log-in password. In the early days of computers, you had to type "LOGIN" to get started. So they got as far as L-O- and the system went down.
So the first message was "LO."
Sometimes I think the next one should have been "LOL" but they didn't have that abbreviation yet.
Interesting stuff you found out about Finland. And you're right, nobody owns the Internet.
Thanks for posting!
I googled the first question and got the same as you said Mr. Ellertsen, "LO" was the first message. It makes me laugh knowing that both parties had to be logged in and to think how different it is now.
Kleinrock and Roberts developed the Internet to provide ways around places that were destroyed from niclear attacks. So it was made for war basically.
No single person owns the Internet, it is owned by several groups. It has changed vastly, we can live video chat and Facebook and Twitter, when it was first developed all they could really do was type back and forth to eachother.
They are doing this because to them Internet is more than entertainment, you use it for basically everything, jobs, communication, school, etc. Yes, I think it should be in the US and for the same reasons, we use it for just about everything.
First message sent on the internet was so short b/c the system crashed. Kleinrock & Roberts designed the internet and it was intended for the U.S. Department of Defense to communicate with eachother in the 1960's. The internet is owned by a couple different groups. Finland has made the internet a legal right and is the first country to do so with 97% of the population already having internet access. Many other countries are in the process of doing the same.
The first message via e-mail in the internet systems was harsh. Both the systems had to be logged in the same time for it to work. Kleinrock and Roberts developed the Internet to provide ways around places that were destroyed from niclear attacks. In this time period everything revolved around the ways of war, as did this.No one single individual is owner of the internet. We all take part in this invention of the past present and future. For example Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, all visited by most of today's population.
The first message was sent via the internet was so short because the system crashed. Kleinrock & Roberts designed the internet and it was intended for the U.S. Department of Defense to communicate with each other in the 1960's. The Internet isnt gjust owned by one person; many groups play a key role in running it. For example, Finland has made the internet a civil right for its citizens and is the first country to do something of the kind; with 97% of the population already having internet access.
The first system crashed , and didnt work correctly because too many computers running at once!
sorry this was late :P
First message in email in the internet was rude. Both of the systems were said to be logged in at the same time in order to work. Roberts along with Kleinrock developed the internet together so that they could provide certain paths around locations that were destroyed from "nuclear attacks". Not one person alone is the owner of the internet. Everyone takes a different part in the invention. Certain websites are visited everyday, guaranteed. Twitter/MySpace/YouTube. Especially Facebook. On average, 500 million people log into Facebook everyday. That's more than the United States itself.
The first messages sent by e-mail were bad because they system would crash so much, and both computers had to be logged in to their computers. The messages were short because the computers would go down. Kleinrock and Roberts developed the first interenet for the Department of Defence. Now, not just one single person owns it, it is a group effort. Yes, internet should be a legal right because it is used for a lot of things.
The first message to be sent was only two letters and it didn't make since because the concertion crashed, no one owns the internet it's a democratized that everybody can have a piece of it and make profit off of it or speak their mind in blogs. Finland made the internet legal right by having 97% connected
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