History of the Internet
Internet : Keeping in mind that we are constantly talking about the news and improvements that
digital marketing and technology bring us, we consider that it is a good time to dedicate a
post to what today seems essential to us: Internet. Today we discuss the history of the Internet,
beginning with the fact that it was born, at the time, as a military project to be able to secure
communications between different parts of the United States in case of suffering a major attack
but, fortunately, never He came to use in this situation and today is a fundamental tool for many
of us that has changed our way of acting, communicating and working.
History of the Internet: The Cold War
First of all, let’s put ourselves in context. To begin the history of Internet, we go back to 1947 when the Cold War begins, a confrontation started at the end of World War II. As you well know, this is a conflict caused by the tension between the Western-capitalist bloc led by the United States and the Eastern-Communist bloc led then by the Soviet Union.
In this one they faced two opposite models that struggled to implant their method and ideology in the whole world. The reason for calling this confrontation “cold war” is because they never confronted each other directly but, in return, they were implicating the rest of the countries with the objective of expanding their model.
After a long period of confrontations, during the last stage, the Soviet economic model stagnated and the United States was militarily reinforced which positioned it then in a favorable situation. In 1985 Gorbachev became Secretary General and was the one who promoted a series of reforms known as Perestroika (restructuring). After several approaches, in late 1989 Gorbachev and Reagan’s successor, George H. W. Bush, declared the Cold War ended. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union as such.
