The creation of the Internet

The first functional computers were created in 1957 however these computers could only do one task at a time making them not very useful but throughout 1957 these computers got bigger and bigger to the point where they needed to be stored in their own rooms. Eventually this lead to other smaller computers being connected to the one big computer. This lead to the time-sharing concept where multiple users could use the one big computer via the smaller computers. This then lead to the creation of DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). Before DARPA knowledge was shared via human communication however DARPA created the ARPANET which would be one large computer system that could be accessed to gather knowledge. The ARPANET (created in 1966) would also make sure than already existing information is not duplicated. Three other networks were then created (NPL, CYCLADES, and RAND). These four networks are what make up the foundations for our modern internet. 

You Tube

YouTube was created in 2005 and currently has over 1 billion viewers a day (2015). Over recent years YouTube have become somewhat its own subculture (You Tubers is the name of creators on You Tube) and is creating a huge following as you can gain access to the website on almost any device (Mobile views make up almost 40% of total views). In 2013 the largest You Tuber known as Pewdiepie earned over £3.5 million from his channel.  

Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

Web 1.0 is the early beginnings of the internet where the majority of people did not have access to a computer or an internet connection and there was very little user generated content and more published content. Web 1.0 also had very few users (45 million active users in 1996) when compared to more modern day numbers (1 billion + active users 2006).  Web 1.0 was also referred to as the “mostly read only web” but as technology advanced son Web 2.0 was created where there is almost an equal amount of published content and user generated content and the user count is in the billions. Web 2.0 is also referred to as the “widely read-write web” where anybody with a computer (or sufficient device) and with and internet connection can write, review, read, view access, millions of websites blogs, videos and more with only a few clicks of a mouse.

Wikipedia

With the early production of the web websites like Wikipedia became very popular as they allowed people to share information with other people. One of the biggest selling points with Wikipedia was that anybody with an internet connection could write and edit posts. This quickly became the biggest source of information as one person could create a post for example on the company Microsoft with just basic information and then once posted someone else could improve and edit that post giving that post more information on Microsoft. Wikipedia currently (2015) has 24,156,868 users and has over 4,726,437 articles.