History of internet addiction
In the 50's the United States had an inefficient and chaotic communication system and the threat of war, nuclear and in the midst of the Cold War in the late 60's, the Department of Defense of the EU, addressing strategic issues, set the parameters for the development of a network of computers that became known as ARPANET.
The network was born in 1969. It was created by a group of researchers, to establish a system of communication with other agencies of government in a project to communicate some computer centers around the country. The fear that an attack could destroy the data stored in one place, forced not only a powerful computer which the central keep, but the result of the connection of many. The project called ARPANET, was to develop a system of military information, which retained their operation, even if some of these computer centers were bombed. So if one or two of these centers were destroyed, the rest could stay connected.
Each node of the network, received an identification number, known as the address, which allowed computers to differ from each other to facilitate the implementation of processes simultaneously. The scheme is based on "packages" of information sent to different computers according to the protocol standard Internet (IP). Each packet carries including the address of the computer to which it was sent, so that the "package" may be being diverted to its destination. Over the years, ARPANET was opening its communication standards at universities, research and government agencies as well as to institutions abroad, becoming a cosmopolitan network called Internet.
As time passed, Arpanet grew and grew on computers connected, and early 80s are numerous networks. That was a huge bank of data which was very difficult to find what was needed and had too many incompatible formats. Thus was born the Internet, uniting what was once a "rosary" of small networks and, more importantly, introduced the tools necessary for management, creating different programs for access.
The increasing demand to be connected quickly and soon became clear that the system would have other purposes than originally intended, and that these depended on the needs of new users. To solve the problem of the various codes were developed protocols of communication that allows computers to communicate transparently across different interconnected networks. So the protocols were developed TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). Once you have found the solution were added to support more networks with new services such as e-mail, mailing lists, among others.
Until the late eighties, the Internet was used primarily by researchers and academics, but in the current decade, since he became popular among all kinds of people, has grown at a frenetic pace.
However, conducting a census on the Internet is like trying to count the heads of those who attended a large demonstration. Given the above observation, the Internet population would be between 10 and 100 million or less.
Oddly enough, there is no authority that controls central network operation, although there are groups working to organize somehow the traffic on it. Nor belongs to a private or government entity. Most of its services and resources are offered for free to its users.
One reason was the popularity to consult information on tools such as Gopher and Archie which were obscured with the development of World Wide Web (WWW) in 1991 by CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics).
While simpler tools were developed to query information, the boom began in 1993 with the launch of Mosaic, the first graphical browser.
Mosaic Today and their successors as Netscape Navigator allow just click with the mouse in a few words and figures (called hyperlinks) the browser automatically read pages on any computer connected to the WWW, born with this the word now known as Browse.
It is estimated that the average age of the standard Internet user is 32 years and 1 in 10 users are under 18 years. It is estimated that 57% of users are male and 43% women globally.
Today, 30 years later, the Internet is now a reality that unites more than 16 million reported networks including telephone lines, fiber optic and satellite and over 60 million users, with current information equivalent to 40 million novels.
The rate of growth, both as end-user networks, is twelve percent monthly as Internet Society assumes that in 2020 there will be something over 200 million Internet users.