In your own words, summarize the history and development of the Internet and cyberspace.
Albeit unconventional, I like to think of the internet’s earliest iteration as morse code, where people communicated via a form of “binary” over American Telephone and Telegraphs, that with the need for amplified lines for long distance telephone communication, they invented the transisitor that would enable the integrated circuit to make modern computing possible. But it would be many years before the modern PC would surf cyberspace, but during that time, the telegraph and phone lines still would dominate the infrastructure that would come to be the internet.
However, that doesn’t mean that information wasn’t still passed along the wire. Though fax machines were theoretically proposed in as early as 1843, words and images were sent along public phone lines via Xerox (of course) as early as 1966. One could even argue that early fax etiquette, cover letters and confirmation calls before and after the meat of the message lent themselves towards the ideas behind the design of TCP protocols in 1973.
In 1965 Gordon Moore hypothesized that computing would increase in power and decrease in cost at an exponential rate, and considering early T1 lines and their cost, I think that his law could apply to telecommunications as easily as it applies to transistors. From telegraphs dictated over dots and dashes to 65 gigabyte videogame updates (which, if I’m not mistaken would be approximately 650,00,000,000 dots and dashes. It’s wild to think that many of us are still using the twisted pair copper of our grandfathers, yet instead of transmitting voice calls, we are linking up over skype and having face to face conversations, or perhaps more appropriately perusing four entire seasons of the twilight zone on netflix, as presented by the ever evolving internet.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/special-report/vint-cerf-and-bob-kahn-co-inventors-tcp-ip-protocol
https://www.netflix.com/title/70172488