Information Flow in Large Communication Nets by Leonard Kleinrock

This essay will discuss how the chosen medium, which is the internet, applies to Poe’s seven new technologies rules. The internet is define as a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. Moreover, It is derived from combining the word ‘Inter’ (reciprocal, mutual) and ‘network’ together. The internet is considered a new media. Rouse (2005) noted that, “New media is a catch-all term for all forms of electronic communication that have appeared or will appear since the original mainly text-and-static picture forms of online communications”. Therefore, according to Bal (2010), New media is not a technology, it is merely to pin point precise life cycle of an ICT technology. In addition, twenty years ago, the internet and digital processes were the new media. (Bal, 2010).

First rule is Groups of tinkerers discover new technologies. This is indeed applicable for the internet, though there is no claim or any official records over who invented the internet, where was its origin and when was it first developed there are however, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs to the development of the internet itself. Moreover, the exact date when the modern internet came into being remain unclear but sometime in the early mid-1980’s is considered reasonable (“Internet,” n.d.) but this however, will always be debatable as it is also claimed to first started being developed in the late 1960's. tinkerers as we all know it do not work alone, and they do not work because they must, these people are driven by objectivity such as passion and curiosity that may or not benefit them.

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