Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The World in Internet Fever

1969, the Internet age began, four American universities linking their computers via telephone lines with each other. The idea was that the information in a network of individual, independent, networked computers including a nuclear attack against the United States through the decentralized structure survive würden.
1. 21 years later developed "nuclear physicist's research center CERN in Geneva, the basics of HTML to a hypertext on the basis of inside information"
2. HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the "language" of the World Wide Web, allowing a non-linear structure with cross-references (links).
Some companies recognize the new possibilities of the Web in the acquisition, distribution and advertising that it offers, and in 1993 were the first sites in Netz3. However, the number of users is still limited - until 1998: "The number of users began to increase exponentially around the world" 4 The Internet was in its path, a new mass medium to be.
Smart businessmen saw their chance and established Internet companies. In the stock markets brought the so-called "dot-com" companies to its shareholders the benefits high. The exchange of technology where the majority of Internet companies are traded, with experience from 1996 to 1998, a legendary Aufschwung5. Even traditional media began to create online offerings, however, initially more for fear of competition.
"Today, anyone with a modem, personal computer and a phone line can become an editor"

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