Hist 390 How the internet works

The main theory of discussion was, “Information wants to be free.” This means that information is absolutely useless if it being held by the one who is holding it from everywhere. Information is something that wants to circulate freely and encounter as many people as possible. The next subject was the different forms of technology being created which helped create a domino effect of other technologies being produced. The Audion was a vacuum tube that enable electrical signals to be transported through grids. It helped other technology such as the radio, TV, and record player to be used and developed, but the downside of it was that it was a bulky item that generated lots of heat, and was inefficient to use. Not too long later, the transistor was formed which did the same thing the Audio did, but was smaller and more efficient. This led to other technology being produced to be smaller and more efficient because it ran on smaller parts. A branch of technology being produced was the radio station. In 1920, there was only one radio station in America. Then, in 1930, 100’s of radio station were created and millions of radios were held in nearly every home.

The internet is all the world’s forms of connectivity with the World Wide Web being a subset of it. The internet allowed different pieces of information to be intertwined with each other. The hypertext comes about which makes some or all words some how connected to each other with no end point. On websites such as Wikipedia, people are able to click on hypertexts and surf different sides of the internet with no end in sight.

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