On October 30, 2009 the Internet hit a milestone; it’s forty year birthday. Within a rapidly changing globally interconnected society, user connectivity is often taken for granted in our day-to-day life; when polled, some of the most technology savvy individuals were left without words while questioned as to how the Internet came to exist. Assisting the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, the Internet came to be and seen its first message in 1969; this birth of content sharing, on a network of interconnected computers, was short lived only to crash seconds before a full word could be spelled – functioning as a “packet switching” protocol, the Internet began as the ARPANET. Rapidly changing to advance each day, the Internet’s fortieth birthday brings my mind to a simple question; is the Internet a right or a privilege for adults? Read the full article
