The Internet and the World Wide Web have evolved from a useful military and scientific communication toolkit to a black hole of advertisements, commerce, palaver, pornography, pontification = neologism the act of pontificating, and propaganda. The progenitor of the Internet Version 4 based on IPv4 Internet Protocol was the DARPANET, a United States defense and military project. The DARPANET was a distributed and redundant system of Wide Area Network supercomputers to ensure some necessary and enough information to run the United States would be saved in the event of an all-out thermonuclear war involving the United States. The first great or killer application on the DARPANET and later the Internet was email and it was invented in the late 1960s. The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 as a communication channel using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) so particle physicists could share information and scientific results of large-scale particle colliders and cyclotrons. It was commandeered by commercial ventures in the mid-1990s. The WWW grew exponentially with the acceptance of commerce. Now the IPv4 network has accumulated a lot of garbage especially pornography and propaganda. Perhaps IPv6 with its 128-bit addressable Internet Protocol addresses will not be polluted by the sicknesses in IPv4 and its rather tiny 32-bit address space.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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