Throughout the years, there has been so much history being made with computer networking. The history to me that made computer networking a massive success was back in world war 2 in 1933 the Telex messaging network came to life. Like the Volkswagen Beetle and modern freeway systems, the Telex messaging network comes from the early period of Germany’s Third Reich. Telex starts as a way to distribute military messages. Still, it soon becomes a world-wide network of both official and commercial text messaging that will persist in some countries into the 2000s. Telex uses teleprinters, which date back to the 1910s for use in telegraphy. But instead of using pricey dedicated telegraph lines, the telex system connects those teleprinters to each other over voice telephone lines, routed by modified telephone switches. Wireless versions of Telex soon connect remote regions of the developing world. Telex messaging was a critical piece of equipment around that for the military to relay their messages around so that whoever was going to be apart of a mission would already know what they were going to do and where they were heading.
However, in 1934, history continues to top its self stunningly. In 1934 Belgian Paul Otlet has a modest goal: collect, organize, and share all the world’s knowledge. Otlet had co-created a massive “search engine” starting in the early 1900s. His Mundaneum now combines enhanced card catalogs with sixteen million entries, photos, documents, microfilm, and more. He is working on integrating telegraphy and multiple media, from sound recordings to television. In the 1930s, British writer H.G. Wells and American scientist Vannevar Bush are advancing similar goals—Wells with his “World Brain” writings and Bush with the Memex, a microfilm-based Web browser. These approaches to organizing information differ. But all share key features of today’s Web, including automated cross-references – which we call hyperlinks.
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