In what ways do you communicate online?
This is a coincidence. I have thought a lot on this topic recently. I don’t know where to start, apparently there are so many social media apps. People use it to communicate online, including me. Here are some information for you.
History of Internet
Internet wasn’t internet. It was called ARPANET (The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). Long before the arrival of digital communications, the steam engine, telegraph pole and coalmine quickened the pace of the world. The industrial revolution created a world of centralization and organized hierarchy. Its defining pattern was a single, central dot to which all strands led. But the emerging digital age is different.
A great adjustment in human affairs is under way. The pattern of political, commercial and cultural life is changing. The defining pattern of the emerging digital age is the absence of the central dot. In its place a mesh of many points is evolving, each linked by webs and networks. This story is about the death of the centre and the development of commercial and political life in a networked system. It is also the story about the coming power of the networked individual as the new vital unit of effective participation and creativity.
At the centre of this change is the Internet, a technology so unusual and so profoundly unlikely to have been created that its existence would be a constant marvel were it not a fact of daily life.
The 1950s were a time of high tension. The US and Soviet Union prepared themselves for a nuclear war in which casualties would be counted not in millions but in the hundreds of millions. As the decade began President Truman’s strategic advisors recommended that the US embark on a massive rearmament to face off the Communist threat.
The story of the Internet’s first decades pivots around the difficulties of a willing government to gift a revolutionary technology to a private sector unwilling to accept it. Twenty-first-century observers would be baffled by the inability of the telecommunications giant, at&t, to grasp the potential of the Internet. at&t could have taken over control of arpanet and gained a head start in the new digital dispensation. Yet on two separate occasions it rejected the opportunity to develop the Internet: first, when rand had approached it with only a concept of how digital packet networking could work in the 1960s; and second, when arpa presented working proof of the arpanet in the mid-1970s. It would scarcely seem possible knowing what is now known about the Internet that a company could have rebuffed the opportunity to gain an early mover advantage.
Cern is the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. In the 1980s and early 1990s it was home to a dizzying array of incompatible computers brought by thousands of researchers travelling from different countries. It represented all the diversity of the computing world within one self-contained environment. A contractor named Tim Berners-Lee developed a piece of software called ‘Enquire’ in the 1980s to map relationships between the various people, programs and systems he encountered there. Enquire marked the first step in his invention of the World Wide Web.
Social Media
Social media is a form of electronic communication, such as websites for social networking and microblogging, through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content like videos and photos.
First Social App
SixDegrees (1997), is often regarded as the first social media site. In 1991, when Tim Berners-Lee integrated hypertext software with the Internet, he created the World Wide Web, marking the beginning of the modern era of networked communication.
First Online Chat Room
It is probably Talkomatic. It was an online chat system by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO system.
Social Media Now
In the early 2000s, social media platforms gained widespread popularity with the likes of Friendster and Myspace, followed by Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (now: X), among others. Also there are Instagram, Threads, Blogger, WordPress, Jetpack, LinkedIn, Telegram, Whatsapp, Tiktok and…you can include ChatGPT although it’s a chatbot developed by OpenAI. Chatbot can be used in social media to send auto message and other functions.
If you want to read more about internet you can read from the source below
Ryan, J. (2010). A History of The Internet and The Digital Future. London: Reaktion Books Ltd.
You can read social media part 2 here.
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