The Internet Society was formed in 1992 by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, two of the “Fathers of the Internet”. (Read the 1992 announcement.) The Internet Society’s history and values reflect this founding lineage. Among its leadership and membership one can find many of the Internet’s technical pioneers, innovators, and global connectors.
An interactive timeline of the Internet Society’s history from its founding to the present day. Keith Lynch’s Timeline of net related terms, concepts, stories, and people A timeline from June 1975 to February 1998 showing when terms, concepts, stories, and people were first mentioned.
The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, access, and policy.Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world." It has offices in Reston, Virginia, in the United States, and Geneva, Switzerland
Internet - Internet - Society and the Internet: What began as a largely technical and limited universe of designers and users became one of the most important mediums of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As the Pew Charitable Trust observed in 2004, it took 46 years to wire 30 percent of the United States for electricity; it took only 7 years for the Internet to reach that same level of ...
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The Impact of the Internet on Society: A Global ...
So, to assess the relevance of Internet in society we must recall the specific characteristics of Internet as a technology. Then we must place it in the context of the transformation of the overall social structure, as well as in relationship to the culture characteristic of this social structure. ... A Social History of the Internet. Cambridge ...
The Internet Society. The Internet Society (ISOC) is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". With offices near Washington, DC, USA, and in Geneva, Switzerland, ISOC has a membership base comprising more ...
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Internet | Description, History, & Facts | Britannica
Internet, a system architecture that has revolutionized communications and methods of commerce by allowing various computer networks around the world to interconnect. The Internet emerged in the United States in the 1970s but did not become viable to the general public until the early 1990s.
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Cyberculture: Society, Culture, and the Internet ...
CYBERCULTURE: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND THE INTERNET. Few technologies in human history rival the Internet in its speed of adoption and range of impact. The Internet's spread has been compared to the advent of the printing press, which, like the Internet, greatly enhanced the availability of information and the rate of its reproduction.Many have commented on the Internet's ability to transform ...
