Foot: An Oral History of the Internet

Though this article was nine pages long, I found some of the information really rather intriguing. It is called, How the Web was Won and it has really fascinating facts about the internet. For one thing, I didn't know that the internet was technically founded in the 1960s. I thought that it didn't get started, or even thought about until the early 1990s. I also didn't know that Microsoft wasn't the first company relating to computers. I found it extremely fascinating to read about how the all the people that have put their brains to making the internet what is is today.

I started to think about how this affects me, and other people around the world. It made me think about how the Egyptian authorities basically shut down the internet in the past couple of weeks because of all the protests going in. How is it even possible to shut down the internet to an entire country? The only thing I really wanted to know more about is how they keep the internet running without crashing because of all the people using its services? I think it is amazing how far we have come from the beginning, but I thought the article droned on about unnecessary details. I would like to know more about how the concept of an internet came about, and how hard it was to get it up and running. Plus, all the computer speak was confusing me quite a bit. Half of the terms they were using, I had never heard about. The article didn't do a very good job at  explaining what the terms mean. I think I grew up in a very computer orientated world, but I still have no idea half of the things that goes into keeping the internet working how we want it to. It's mind boggling.