GEOG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arpanet, Ethernet, The Victorian Internet

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 105
• Professor: J Cidell

Document Summary

Geographies of the digital: places/ spaces/ territories/ etc. produced or modified by, digital technologies. Ict history: pre-1830s communication = transportation (mail or post, electric telegraph 1837. Instant info: based on wires, submarine cables, (cid:862)vi(cid:272)toria(cid:374) i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)et(cid:863, telephone 1867, sending voice by wire, spread from big cities outward usually started in railroad areas, more individual users, more of a network. Diffusion of internet: cold war, military-industrial product, network of separate computers, multiple connections, connected via packet-switching, packet-switching = b/w completely different devices, arpanet 1969, add in satellites, radio tcp/ip. Internet history: 1970s email, ethernet, lans, non-us networks, non-academics, 1980s growing networks, usenet, gaming, aol, nsf, supercomputer sites, 1990s world wide web, graphical browsers, search engines, irc, commercial use. Sites of internet production: original centers of innovation, traditional content centers, news, movies, scholarship, business, etc, under web 2. 0, individuals, favors english-speaking, early adopters.