COMM 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Internet Engineering Task Force, Xerox Alto, Hypercard
10 Apr 2017
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Every net citizen is a publisher as well as a consumer of information. (rheingold, 1997) Birth/growth of computers and internet linked to military complex. Over history of computer hardware, number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approx. every two years. Value of telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to system. 1991 united states high performance computing act. E-commerce (electronic commerce) online purchases and financial transaction on the web. Programs that track internet navigation, send information back to originator. Firewall -- type of system that encrypts codes. For profit sector of web still minority. Network of network continues to expand on a global level. Youtube founded by chad hurley, steve chen, and jawed karim in 2005. Just a year later, youtube was bought by google. If a content creator on youtube decided that they like to make video professionally and get paid for making these videos,
