Internet Evolution and the New Definition of Internet

      The Origin of the Internet

      From the perspective of human development history, human progress is the history of continuous extension and connection of several key sexual organs. The accelerated development of human brain networking began in 1753:

On February 17, 1753, almost at the beginning of the industrial revolution, the author signed C "M published a famous letter on the magazine" Scotsman ". In the letter, he described in detail the structure of the" current communicator "and the method of sending and receiving messages.

In June 1837, an Englishman named Cook obtained a patent for telegraph. This invention took the first step in the history of human telecommunication. The Morse code it uses is still relatively slow, but it is not far from the binary bit stream in today's computer communication.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Her significance lies in that today's Internet network is still largely built on the telephone switching system.

      In 1946, the world's first electronic computer was born in the United States. This makes the extension of human brain a qualitative leap.

In the 1950s, communication between computers came into being.

In the early days of the Internet, its virtual space seemed to be an immature virtual brain. This virtual brain was floating with several simple and core functional areas, which were e-mail, Website construction , FTP, bulletin board, original online game. Among them, email and FTP assume the function of neural link. Electronic bulletin boards and original online games are equivalent to the large cerebral cortex of the brain. With the evolution of the Internet, electronic bulletin boards have evolved, and functions have been separated one by one to form multiple functional areas of the Internet virtual brain. Press release area, e-commerce area, blog area, Witkey area, digg area, Wiki area, SNS area, exchange area, search engine area.

The technological development in the past 210 years has made it possible to connect the brain. This possible realization was the birth of the Internet in 1969. History tells us that the fundamental purpose of Internet invention is to realize the networking of the brain, not just the networking of machines. Marx also clearly pointed out that "the technological structure formed by the combination of tools and people is the unique essential structure of human beings, and is the material basis and driving force for the emergence and development of other human structures. "The Internet should not be just a collection of millions of networks and servers, but a network of interconnected human brains and machines. Therefore, the new definition of the Internet is that the Internet is a collection of five elements: physical network, server nodes, data flowing between server nodes and physical networks, terminal equipment at the end of the physical network, and people operating terminal equipment.