rnet allows any computer on a network to be connected to any other computer and exchange data through a single line, which was shared by all the computers on the network. It was developed by Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre), it was similar to a single office phone line that is used by a number of workers – only Metcalfe was able to figure out a way to bring harmony to what otherwise would have been a mess of opposing voices. He was able to come up with a solution to the problem of more than one computer talking at a time. Ethernet allowed any computer to be connected to any other computer through a local area network. TCP/IP allows networks to communicate to each other over very large distances. FusionMany more ingenious technologies were added to the creation of the Internet over the next ten years – making it a few steps closer to where it is today. One major contributor was the husband and wife team of Len Bosak and Sandy Lerner who came up with a simple, yet practical high-speed system of sorting through packets of data on a network, and deciding which ones should remain in the network an which ones should leave. This device is called a router. Meanwhile, in the late 80s and early 90s, others were coming up with the software, which would make take today’s Internet from being a dream into a reality. UNIX was developed by Bell Laboratories, and Novell’s Netware helped make networks talk in a language, which was actually useful to a large university or corporate environments. Internet SpeechOthers contributed a huge number of helper-languages, called “protocols,” that were custom designed for very specific uses over the developing Internet. One of the earliest to arrive was electronic mail (email), this enabled people anywhere in the world to instantly exchange short text messages. In 1989/1990, Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist at the English Laboratory for Par...
