Digital communication is driven by ‘Internet Infrastructure’ and ‘Web Architecture’. And yet… if you didn’t study computer science, you may know know know the difference between the two. More importantly you probably don’t clearly see why digital communication is stuck. And most knowledge remains trapped in our heads.
1. The Internet “Digital Post”
The US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA) sought a way to share information and maintain communication even in the face of potential attacks, leading to the creation of ARPANET, a network connecting computers at universities and research institutions.
https://cis471.blogspot.com/2012/08/seeding-internet-cost-government-1245.html
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/govt.htm
2. The Web “Digital Library”
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.1
If you want to go deeper, here are 3 wonderful books.
- Circuits, Packets, and Protocols: Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988
- Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web.
- How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
References
- Initial Cost of the Arpanet. https://cis471.blogspot.com/2012/08/seeding-internet-cost-government-1245.html ↩︎