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QUICK HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
When we entered the period of industrialization then the age of
electricity over 200 years ago, the pace of communication greatly improved.
Various innovations came about, revolutionizing the way people communicated.
Some of them were film (1890s), radio (1895), and television (1927).
The Idea for the Internet began with the invention of computers in the
1960s. Scientist were looking for ways to link computers in the US and Europe
so information can be quickly shared for defense and scientific purposes. In
the 1980s, British computer scientist Time Berners-Lee conducted a research at
CERN (Switzerland) which later resulted in the invention of the World Wide Web.
And since the mid-1990s, the Internet has become a fixture of any modern
society. In the summer of 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council
released a non-binding document condemning the international disruption of
Internet access by governments. This followed the 2011 report by Frank LaRue,
the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to
freedom of opinion and the expression, that Internet access is a fundamental
right.
The Internet has increased the power and reach of mass media. We have
now entered the Information Age. Information is abundant and is spread
instantaneously and inexpensively throughout the world. Its growth hasn’t
stopped-in fact, it is exponentially growing and changing, quickening the ways
we communicate, bringing new challenges to how media shapes society.
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