Historicizing Cyberspace

What is Cyberspace?

All I know about cyberspace is a connection and collaboaration between humans and computers. This is a space of information humans have stored to share, connect and collaborate to other humans in a network... that is what i think.

But according on my reference,"Cyberspace is a term used to describe a new kind of "space" that has been made possible by the Internet.[1]" Yes, a space where people can be connected and gather information about something they wanted to look for. Possible connection made by the internet like what we used to see nowadays.

another is the term cyberspace gained notice after William Gibson's use of it in his science fiction novel Neuromancer (1984). "The portion of Neuromancer cited in this respect is usually the following:
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding".[2] The meaning is just a representation of data banked in a computer in the computer systems connected in network. That would be, i think...

THe History

The cyberspace history began in the Cold War days of Eisenhower adminmistration in the USA with the Russian. To respond to the technology launched by the Russian - Sputnik, US created Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in 1958. the following are the person engaged to ARPA with the idea of making a connection between computer systems:
•J.C.R. Licklider – relationship between computers & humans
•Robert Taylor – idea of networking multiple computer systems

Taylor's idea was approved by the ARPA and sooner call for help with Larry Roberts – computer scientist (long distance computer networking) to make his idea possible. The latter came to ARPA in 1967, and ARPANet connection came together in 1969.

When the ARPANet is on air, one of biggest discoveries during the time was when Ray Tomlinson used @ symbol to delemit the domain name in an e-mail address. He was the first person to send E-mail. The major problem with ARPANet is in 1973, when it has encountered heavy internet traffic. Vinton Cerf & Bob Khan developed Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to face the problem.With this new transmission protocol, the Internet continued to grow until today.

Many have engaged to internet since then, even the white house. E-mail is one of the hottest applications use in the Neteven today. File attachment such as multimedia files can now be attached when making e-mails. the Mostly used E-mail applications are: MS Inbox, MS Outlook or MS Outlook Express and Netscape Mail or Netscape Messenger.

The Web is nothing but exciting! It can generates lots of money and when lots of money come - excitement then follows. Nowadays, the Web is even more convenient and user-friendly. there are emergence of web portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, etc.

In the future, the internet could be converge to other applicaitons such as televisions, news, etc. like intercasting for example. Intercasting combines the interactive nature of the Web with television programming. Users can use the Internet to access information that complements a participating television program.

So, let us see what excitement the internet and the web could do for us in the future or as sooner as possible!

References:

1. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics.Cyberspace. Copyright © 2001-2006 by Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of the Gale Group. All rights reserved.

2. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace"Categories: Cyberspace Internet history Virtual reality William Gibson last modified on 17 November 2008, at 18:10.

3. Dodd, Jeff. Before You Begin.March 1999 • Vol.5 Issue 3

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November 18, 2008