An Asturian view of networking 2015
José Antonio Corrales · Communications of the ACM · 2001
Internet has begun to affect human society. In many countries, its use is still minimal, even nonexistent in others, it is used to support only internal government approved communications, sometimes deliberately cut off from all external influences. However, one can be sure that Internet's future development will involve not only a growing variety of services and devices but an increasing exchange of information originating in countries other than one's own. Author's first experience with the Internet was in 1991 when two technicians delivered to the computer services unit, an electronic component with the size of a large shoe box, it turned out to be a popular commercial Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol router. Within a few hours, local area networks, which at the time involved perhaps a half dozen computers, was connected to the Internet and a number of professors, researchers and students became university's first users of this relatively new net of nets. The Internet has since become a source of great changes in terms of commercial activity entertainment and personal information sharing throughout the rest of society.