LAN Technology: The Birth Of Computer Networking?

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In this modern times a revolution is taking place. Quietly this revolution has started and grown that it involved the world. A revolution is a sudden change in the way people live (Merriam-Webster). The birth of computer networking started during the early 1970's and began to flourish during the late 1970's. Various manufacturers in the computer industry launched small minicomputers with enough computational power to cater the needs of several users. Because of the cheap prices of such computers, every department in sizable organizations can afford one. In order to interconnect minicomputers and allow swift transfer of information among them, a number of organizations started to install Local Area Networks. Because LAN Technology is both cheap and easy to install, an individual department can buy, install and operate a LAN for their minicomputers without seeking the help of the administration (Comer, 2007)
"In the Beginning, ARPA created the ARPANET. And the ARPANET was without form and void. And darkness was upon the deep. And the spirit of ARPA moved upon the face of the network and ARPA said, 'Let there be a protocol,' and there was a protocol. And ARPA saw that it was good. And ARPA said, 'Let there be more protocols,' and it was so. And ARPA saw that it was good. And ARPA said, 'Let there be more networks,' and it was so" (Cohen, 1989)
The birth of the Internet was in 1962, it even precedes the invention of the term "internet". The world's first 10,000 computers are primal, even though they are costly. They have limited magnetic core memory, and programming each unit is not even close to easy. Locally, data communication that uses the phone is a monopoly of AT&T. The "Picturephone" of 1939, exhibited once more at the New York...

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... local storage unit. There may also be a limit on how much you can store per session. Next one is Slow speed. Uploading and downloading of large documents may take a long time. The last one is Limited features. If you use remote software that’s provided by the storage service to manipulate and modify your data, it usually lacks the features of a program running locally.
Cloud computing remains firm and has great potential for the future despite its disadvantages and the fact that it is still is a working progress. The number of users are constantly growing and bigger companies are starting to be interested, offering better and finer tuned services and solutions. The best thing to do is to hope that the advantages will further grow and flourish and the disadvantages will slowly disappear, since cloud computing seems to have made IT a little bit easier (Morris, 2011).

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