Unique Fact: Internet

Internet is not new to us. Little bit search on the internet, little bit search on the internet. Until there is a pretty funny ad from Indonesia's largest telecommunications company (you know the one ...) that the dialogue can not find on the internet is lost goat. Indeed, the Internet has been a catharsis that revolutionized the culture of the world community towards the information society. Indonesia is still lagging behind the internet about drifting had already started changing the world community.

Well, as an addition to an understanding about the Internet, here are some interesting facts about the internet:

1. Internet network for the first time beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, which was built by ARPA (United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Some preliminary investigations are contributed by the ARPANET included a series of non-central Siwak (decentralised network), queuing theory, and Siwak exchange packet (packet switching). On January 1, 1983, ARPANET protocol to exchange a series of centers, from NCP to TCP / IP. This is the beginning of the Internet we know today. So, thank ARPA ...


2. Electronic mail or electronic mail (e-mail) first successfully transmitted between two machines is done by a taciturn engineer, Ray Tomlison at BBN one day in 1972. Previously, Tomlison has written a mail program for TENEX, an operating system developed by BBN, which until now still operating on the machines PDP-10 ARPANET. Besides, who also is a monumental Mr. Tomlison who discovered the symbol @ in your e-mail which is then used by people worldwide.

3. Based on ARIN and APNIC whois records, Internet protocol (IP), the first of Indonesia, UI-NETLAB (192.41.206/24) registered by the University of Indonesia on June 24, 1988. (Great UI ni also ...)


4. The phrase "surfing in the Internet" (surfing the Internet) first appeared in 1992 by Jean Armour Polly. The emergence of the phrase because of the Polly the mouse pad with a picture of the surf again, so he got the idea of ​​using the term was surfing for internet-related activities. Fits really call it, boss!











 5. September 4, 1956 IBM introduced the world's first hard disk. Hard disk size of two refrigerators worth $ 250,000 now, with the ability of 5 MB, or just enough to keep the songs in MP3 format. Compare that with today's hard drives have a 0.6 cm wide with a capacity of 400 GB! Well, if it is converted to IBM's hard drive, how much the fridge well ...





6. The first country to implement an online system in the general election is Estonia. Though the country is one of the poorest countries in the European Union. The election was held on Sunday, March 4, 2007, the total voters in Estonia amounted to 940 000 people. 

7. Blog (neither the weblog) is most likely the first page What's new on the Mosaic browser created by Marc Andersen in 1993. For information, Mosaic was the browser Internet Explorer first before there even before Netscape. Then in January 1994 Justin Hall started his personal website Justin's Home Page which later became the Links from the Underground which may be called the first blog as we know it today ....

8. A computer virus is expected to appear the first time in January 1986, touted as the first virus for the PC ever made. These viruses infect the boot sector of data storage media with the DOS format File Allocation Table (FAT). (C) Brain (the name of this virus) virus also known as Lahore, Pakistani, Pakistani Brain, Brain-A and UIUC. Businessweek magazine at that time called Pakistani flu. Believe it or not, the virus was created by two brothers Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi who was 19 years old! Brothers initially confessed to Time magazine that they made this virus software to protect their works from piracy treatment. The virus is even equipped with two brothers address the following three phone numbers to call, never miss a message that says that if the user's computer is infected then it is advisable to contact them for vaccination. When they start getting thousands of calls from people all over the United States, Britain, and others, who requested vaccination for their computers, the brothers are stunned and tried to explain that their motivation is not for the crime. They finally cut the telephone wires and regret having revealed their phone number from the beginning.