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Shmoop! Information and communication. The Arpanet started small, but so what,

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so did Chipotle. Well even though the ARPANET only connected four computers by

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the end of 1969. It kept growing all through the 70s. It joined with the

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University of Hawaii's, Aloha net in 1971. Which presumably existed so that the

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residents of Hawaii could brag about living in paradise. Oh and to share [two men on beach]

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data and stuff to. Around 1973 the ARPANET also linked up with Norway's Royal

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Radar Establishment, as well as London's University College. Still it was little hard

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to make one worldwide internet, because some of these packet switched networks [two cartoon computers talking to each other]

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didn't know how to talk to each other. They tried therapy but nothing worked.

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Well that is until a guy named Vinton Cerf came along near the end of the

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1970s with a solution. Cerf invented what he called Transmission Control Protocol,

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or TCP. What was so great about it? It allowed all these little networks, all

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over the world, to have a real conversation. Later on, Cerf added an

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extra protocol, which he somewhat unimaginatively called, Internet [man writing on chalkboard]

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Protocol, or IP. So we, these days, call that TCP/IP. Well basically it's the thing

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that breaks the ice and lets computers all over the world to have a meaningful

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relationship. Well there would be no worldwide internet if it weren't for

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Cerfs protocol. But even with Cerfs innovation, it took a few more years for

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the internet to get to the general public. All through the eighties

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scientists and researchers used to send data to each other. But most people [two men on old computers]

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didn't even know what the internet was. But then in 1991, a Swiss fella, called

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Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of the World Wide Web.

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Well Berners-Lee figured out how to transform the Internet, from just being a

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way to send files from one computer to another.

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He made it such, that it was a web of info. See clever naming there. [man standing on internet web]

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That anybody with internet access could use it. So lets have a round of

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applause for Berners-Lee, for bringing us home and coming up with a modern

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internet. And of course since then the Internet has still been a lot of

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changing. A big one came in 1992, when some folks at the University of Illinois,

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created a browser called Mosaic, which eventually became Netscape. Well it was

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pretty awesome because it was the first web browser to let people see pictures

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and words on the same page. Yep that wasn't always a thing. So we [man scrolling on a computer]

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have no idea what we used to do for fun before it hit the scene. Runny,

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shuffleboard, well we honestly don't remember.

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Well Mosaic also let people, navigate the web, by using clickable links and

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scroll bars, yep those also weren't always a thing. Also in 1992, Congress

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open up the web for commercial use and the online races began. Tons of companies

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jumped on it in a flash. Well pretty soon everybody had their own web site and for [man standing by computer]

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the first time some companies set up businesses, that for the most part

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existed only online. Well as the .com boom did it booming, social networks like,

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Facebook, took off later and the world really hasn't been the same since.

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And so yeah, think about YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Shmoop, these are all very

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new folks. It's important to know how we got here and it's also important to know

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that so not so long ago, Google wasn't a verb. [dictionary with Google under magnifying glass]

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