Internet & The Word wide Web
In todays society we have something called The internet, something that hasn’t been around forever. This is a vast network that connects all the computer throat the whole world together. On the internet people can communicate, share information, from any place with an internet connection. By using a technique called packet swinging together with standardized networking protocols, the computer can interpret with each other. January 1, 1983 is the birthday of the Internet, and around 1960 when it wasn’t a thing, it was used in a way for government researchers to share information thru other ways, like talking, letters, and assembling.
The founder of the Internet Protocol and Transmission Control Protocol is the world famous American electrical engineer Robert Elliot Kahn. Together with Vint Cerf they created the heart of internet that todays society could not live without. The development of the internet kept going fast and later on The World Wide Web, also known as WWW came to the world by Tim Berners-Lee on 12 March 1989. This refers to all the public websites where people thru their computers and other devices can access and get into, where they just end the website link often with WWW. Tim is an English computer scientist that studied at the University of Oxford where he later on because a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in America.
According to Cern Acceleration Science the first every website ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on 30 April 1993. The website was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself by Berners-Lees computer organisation. Until today decades later you can still visit the website: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth & Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr, also called the mother of Wi-Fi, was an Austrian-American actress and inventor that invented frequency hopping. She is connected with Bluetooth and Wifi, as well as GPS, due to the fact that she pioneered that technology that one day would blossom there unique things, which it did. Lamarr passed away 2020, and later on in 2022 Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck created a song called This Is A Song For Miss Hedy Lamarr where the big metaphor behind the song is that Lamarrs beauty is the trap that prevented her to show her intelligence even tho the world and herself made her a star.
Bluetooth kept developing and got a logo, where the initial logo according to Bluetooth themself is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes Hagall and Bjarkan Harald’s initials, that created the logo together. Everything started with a meeting where Intel, Ericsson, and Nokia, three industry leaders at that time wanted to create a short-range radio technology to support connectivity and collaboration. It was Jim Kardach from Intel that came up with the word Bluetooth as a temporary name before they actually decided for that to be the real name. 1999 was the year Bluetooth first was available.
Even tho many people think it was Lamarr that created the Wi-Fi, it was Dr O’Sullivan from the WiFi team that helped. Vic Hayes, also called the Father of WiFi was the head of the WiFi committee that welcomed the international standard for wireless networking, WiFi, in 1997. When the WiFi team was trying to sell it it was hard to say the originally code name IEEE 802. 11b direct Sequence was changed to Wi-Fi which was easier and its short for Wireless Fidelity.
Lastly we can see a red thread thru all this, and everything that I talked about today has a connection. We could not live without any of these in todays society due to many reasons, for an example thousands of jobs are online. Me personally, I use the Internet, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi exactly every single day, and I know my lifestyle with school and work would be very tuff without it. I think its an amazing thing and I’m very interesting how our digital future is going to look like if we keep going like this.
Sources
- https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web#:~:text=The%20first%20website%20at%20CERN,software%20in%20the%20public%20domain.
- https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr#:~:text=Although%20she%20died%20in%202000,communications%20like%20GPS%20and%20Bluetooth
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