It was 1958 when he started a project of Ministry of Defense of the United States called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in an attempt to contrast the technology development of the Soviet Union. In 1966 ARPANET, the first net, to emit a cry, and in the 1971 can connect with each other 23 computers. But we must wait until 1982 because it will rise the phrase Internet: with the realization protocol TCP/IP we impose the standards that would allow multiple connections. The turning point, however, is found in 1991 when the CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) announce the born of the World Wide Web (www). Service providers are beginning to proliferate and already in the 1992 are connect on the net a million computers, that become 600 billions of active site and 120.000 blog that will born every day.
Today Internet is the principal form to communicate, archiving, searches, publicity and information. Nobody had foreseen, nobody has managed to contain it, nobody can control it. The Internet nature, since its birth, is in fact this to avoid every possible obstacles. ARPANET is been studied for keeping always active the communication between the “knots” in case of war and nuclear holocaust. The hardware and software systems is been build with this function and this remains. always finds new ways to allow connections and how to circumvent government filters or commercial. The network of networks, as an autonomy entity, will born, always finds a new ways to allow the connections and how to circumvent government filters or commercial.
Is like a social brain who have already the address numbers 20 times superior to the number of neurons existing in our brain, is become the instrument more powerful and revolutionary created to the man. After we would unit together the Occidental Countries, has extended to developing countries, becoming the largest social phenomenon, cultural and democratic of the story. In a lots of Countries it permits the liberty of expression and the democracy, it guaranty at the population of all world the possibility to see and know all, also what you would like to keep hidden.
Today, thanks for Internet, it is possible to access to the information anywhere in the planet and to get answers in a short time. In this ten years, the humans have accumulated so many quantity of information to transform all net in the General Knowledge: studies and research made on-line from many American Universities at the Wikipedia encyclopedia that have reached a million voices, from the information’s newspaper up-to-date to the operations in the Stock Exchange nonstop, from the personal blog to the consideration of everyone.
An immense job, realize for nothing to millions peoples. Without any coordination, had reached an objective that any business production’s plan would ever realize and, most of all, that any financing could support. Internet assume then a signification a greater quantity to the possibility that concede with his utility. He questioned everything: the information’s control, the political propaganda, the freedom of thought and expression, the economy and the market rules based on an outmoded and anachronistic PIL and, certain, also the systems of the surveillance of the legality, who they would change and evolve for anticipate the criminal utility of the net.
But, most of all, was the only example in the humanity story in which each of us, like bees in a hive, used time and energy for collaborate instead of cooperate, in a territory which we can never understand who is in the center and who in the suburbs and the most of all who is at the top management and the system’s workers.
Translated by Martina Delser
