Talk:Internet
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[edit] Planned changes
This is so I don't forget the idea, and in case anyone else wants to help add a BG section.
In retrospect, I love the way the two-part "Past Tense" portrays the development of the Internet as almost an extension of television; at the time, the "'net" was in its infancy, and the writers were making some (inaccurate) predictions about developments in the near future. Did they get the idea from WebTV-type setups? This would be perfect to mention in the BG - although I guess it's possible we could develop a "channel" system in the future.
I seem to remember early versions of Internet Explorer having "channels" on them as well, which might also have served as inspiration. I'd have to do some research to get the details on what "channels" were (I never paid attention to them) but maybe a tech-savvy user could add some tidbits about that idea and how it obviously didn't catch on. --Vedek Dukat Talk | Duty Roster 04:24, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed
There is no basis for the following information:
- The net began as a military project of the United States of America, then a major Earth country. The project was called ARPANET, an acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and in its earliest years primarily linked military and educational institutions. The fledgling net started to become widely available to the public in the 1990s.
- At first limited to transmitting text at slow speeds, the net's infrastructure quickly advanced to the point where data, voice, and video transmission was common. The net fundamentally changed the nature of media on Earth since it made "peer-to-peer" communication nearly effortless, breaking up the older "one-to-many" model of other forms of communication, such as television, radio, and even book publishing.
Hence why we have links to Wikipedia. --Alan del Beccio 05:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What happened?
So what happened to the Internet? Why isn't it around in the episodes? My theory: In the 2300s, an AI took over a starship and went back in time to the 21st century. He made contact with a hacker who, upon learning that the AI was from the future, demanded that the AI take him back to the 24th century. The AI refused, and in retaliation, the hacker released a devastating virus which destroyed the information on practically all computers connected to the internet. It hid itself until the backup computers were brought online, then attacked those too. Skyler 16:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Huh? --OuroborosCobra talk 17:08, 28 November 2006 (UTC)