EOTO 1- Reaction Post! Blog #7

 In class we presented information about specific technology and how it was created. Each group talked about the history of each technology and the timeline throughout it was created. 

One of the presentations that stood out to me was the history of the internet search.

The internet actually started in the 1960's as a way for government researchers to share information with each other. 

After the Cold War and computers being so immobile they were almost useless, the U.S. Defense Department were looking to find way that information could still be spread even after a nuclear attack. 

January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the internet. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Interwork Protocol.

This system allows different kind of computers on different networks to "talk" to each other. 

The First Search Engine was "Archie", created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a brilliant student at McGill University in Montreal. 

The reason the name became "Archie", was because it was short for "archives". 

In June of 1993, Matthew Gray invented the World Wide Web Wanderer. By doing this, he wanted to measures the growth of the web. He also created the first WWWW bot to count active web servers. 

In 1994, David Film and Jerry Yang created Yahoo! Search, which was the first collection of web pages across the internet including man-made descriptions for the URLs. 

Fast forward to 1998...

Google Launches!

Google, founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, is an American search engine company and that changed the world! 

In conclusion, to get to Google and the search engines that we use today, we had to start somewhere. Without Alan Emtage and "Archie", we would not have the information that we have today.

This invention has changed how fast we receive information, how quick we receive messages, and how aware we are with situations going on in our world. 

Along with receiving information, the first internet search has changed businesses through marketing, social behavior because of trends, and it gives us the ability to grow our education.