Aw the interwebs....yes...the interwebs.

So this second post for my Web design class is over the history of the interwebs...or internet as I'm told it's supposed to be called. The internet as we know it has had many many face lifts, but at its core it is the same as it was back in the 60s. The idea of the internet was first conceived by the government, and also probably several geeks in many different basements. The first internet incarnation was for the military to get communication back and forth quickly, and without using the phone...directly. The internet has since gone from a military communication service to a service provided my many different companies to many different people for many different reasons. For some, the internet is for work, for others it's for play. Through many transformations we as a people are able to share information faster than ever before. The internet browser is usually the means in which we do this. The internet browsers has undergone as many face lifts as some may think. The basic idea has been around since the 70s/80s, but now there are several different ones one can use. The most popular being Internet explorer (I don't like that one) and Mozilla Firefox (I like this one) along with other less popular ones like Safari, and Opera. AOL used to have one, but lets be honest, how many of us where happy to see that go...amirite? These browsers allow us to see the internet by doing a lot of asking around. The Wed address we type in, like Facebook.com or Twitter.com gets put into question form, and sent out as a request by the browser, after adding some fancy http:// stuff to it, and ask for the information from a remote server. This remote server then sends the requested information back to us, and we see the pretty pictures and text of the website on our desktops and laptops. So to conclude, the internet in it's current form really isn't such a new idea, nor was it actually made by Al Gore. The browser helps us see all that there is to be seen on the internet by asking special permission from those far away servers, and bringing it into our homes. Aw the interwebs..yes, the interwebs!