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The Internet

The Internet as net.art.
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The first utterance of language begat the advent of communication and so began the Internet. The Internet has existed since antiquity, computers are just devices that keep track of it. All human interaction, thoughts, conversation, gossip, chatter, text, books, newspapers, films, TV, radio, gestures, and facial expressions are substrates in which the Internet resides. The concept of the Internet being based on electrical connections was first introduced by Vennevar Bush, in 1945 when he published his paper on the memex machine. In 1962 Rand Paul Baran was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. This was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any cities in the U.S. were attacked, the military could still have control of nuclear arms for a counter- attack. Baran's described several ways in which to accomplish this. His final proposal was a network of data packets. Over time, this network expanded from military to educational purposes. In the nineties, commerce and pornography began to overtake all other information on the net, and its creators provided the financial backing and technological innovation to make the net what it is today: an artistic medium. The electronic Internet will continue to exist until someone shuts off the power.