What Did We Learn from This?

• We found that the Internet was created by various public and corporate organizations. We also learned the names of many CEO's who founded companies that support and shape the institution of the Internet. Contrary to the popular notion of the Internet being a space entirely open to users, these organizations place restrictions on the everyday usage of the Internet.
• We found that WWW is not the only means to access the Internet.
• MUD started out as an online game.
• Jim Clark founded Netscape, having created the company based on an idea. This led to the IT boom in the 1990s.
• Silicon Valley started in the 1950.
• Cyberpunk as a genre began in the 1970s.
  
• The meaning of digital technology changed from the Cold War to In the 1960s, Berkeley students protested against computer technology because they thought computers would strengthen top-down media control.