Genesis for the internet
Considering what we have read this semester alone in terms of the actual stories and first-hand accounts of where the internet originated, I believe that the single biggest influence on what we have today in terms of on line communication is the Whirlwind Flight Simulator which later influenced the creation of SAGE.
The Whirlwind I believe is a seminal moment in the development of not only the internet, but also digital computing, The reason that this is significant is that in 1945, the US government commissioned the development of Whirlwind to train fighter pilots, but it also planted the seeds for the idea of a national missile defense system more than 20 years later. This is significant because in both cases, there needed to be an organizational-wide dedication to the development of digital computing.
When it comes to the introduction and development of the SAGE ground-based surveillance system, the system obviously had to work around the clock for it to be viable and effective. So that's where we get the involvement of J.R. Licklider and the need to create a system of one digital terminal responding to real-time digital input. That was the early genesis of the Internet in my eyes.
We became introduced to further details in Thursday's reading of just what Licklider's and his MIT group had in mind and what obstacles they found in the early operations of their data switching network. But the impetus for all of this started with Whirlwind
in this "narrative" of the Internet's development, if you think of it in the terms of our discussion on Thursday.
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The Whirlwind I believe is a seminal moment in the development of not only the internet, but also digital computing, The reason that this is significant is that in 1945, the US government commissioned the development of Whirlwind to train fighter pilots, but it also planted the seeds for the idea of a national missile defense system more than 20 years later. This is significant because in both cases, there needed to be an organizational-wide dedication to the development of digital computing.
When it comes to the introduction and development of the SAGE ground-based surveillance system, the system obviously had to work around the clock for it to be viable and effective. So that's where we get the involvement of J.R. Licklider and the need to create a system of one digital terminal responding to real-time digital input. That was the early genesis of the Internet in my eyes.
We became introduced to further details in Thursday's reading of just what Licklider's and his MIT group had in mind and what obstacles they found in the early operations of their data switching network. But the impetus for all of this started with Whirlwind
in this "narrative" of the Internet's development, if you think of it in the terms of our discussion on Thursday.
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