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Internet geek or chic

 

            
            
             The Internet in its present capacity is a fairly recent invention. Billions of people use the Internet daily for communication, shopping, education and numerous other uses. It is an open forum used to discuss anything that anyone could possibly be interested in. Although the world would be a completely unrecognisable place if the Internet didn't exist, it has allowed people to be consumed within their own little cyber world. Internet use is often associated with "geekiness" and many people's social lives have become non-existent as they trawl through the World Wide Web. So is the Internet a useful tool to help us in our day-to-day lives or just another excuse for people to become exclusionary?.
             A brief history of cyberspace.
             The Internet was first developed in the late 1960's by the US department of defence as a communications tool. It was called the ARPAnet; it was an experimental network to aid with military research. The primary area of research was how to construct networks that could withstand power outages in times of war (for instance nuclear attacks). The whole idea of these original networks was so that one computer could talk to another quickly and easily. For the first decade or so the ARPAnet was primarily used for e-mail, database access, file transfers and online discussion forums. In 1971 the ARPAnet consisted of around 20 sites but by 1981 this figure had grown to over 200 sites. As this growth continued rules were needed to standardise the networks, these were known as the standard protocol, this allowed different computers and different networks to communicate easily. The invention of standard protocol was completed shortly after 1981 and effectively the Internet was born. By 1990 a new Internet protocol was developed, this was called HTML and it allowed much more complex data such as graphics to be transmitted across cyberspace. This protocol allowed users to create web sites, this collection of sites is commonly referred to as the World Wide Web (WWW).


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