Chapter One

Chapter One starts with a definition of the Internet and its modern protocol (TCP/IP).Email, IM, IRC, Newsgroups (which have been removed by many providers), Telnet, ftp (which I still use) and some e-business syntax.

I read a good book on the beginnings of the Internet, and the book included material up to ARPANET and a little past it. ARPANET was a government research project and many people don't know that the very start of the Internet was for military purposes. I recognize Mr. Licklider (MIT) who was the visionary who outlined what would become the Internet as we know it. He passed away in 1990 before the computer became very popular, but the concepts were his, long before Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Several of the Internet builders gave one key idea. Some have passed away, and others lived to see the 2000's with common use of the Internet at home. To understand the Internet you have to know that first it was (supposed to be) for the military, and second it was not one person, but many men who solved one part of the whole, and shaped it into what it has become today.