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@#THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

The internet started in September 1969 as a project of the U.S Department of Defence (U.S.A). The project was named ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, a connection amongst four universities and other connections of computer networks were then added later on. Then in 1987, ARPANET changes to NSFNET, a backbone created by the National Science Foundation (U.S.A) for National Research and Education Network, it represents the birth of the internet. With the transformation of the internet from being a private project of the Department of Defence to being national, it also meant more vulnerability to the cyber criminals, in 1988 a worm attacks more than 6000 computers including those of the Department of Defence.

Then in 1989, World Wide Web (WWW or “the web”) is developed at CERN and changed things around by introducing a graphical interface to the largely text-based Internet...using hypermedia, documents could now include audio, video, images and others. This signifies the birth of the internet as we now know it. The web meant amongst other things, more information, less geographical boundaries, more collaboration opportunities and simple accessible communication technologies. 1995 Microsoft releases the first version of internet explorer, 1996 Yahoo goes public, 2005 Youtube is launched, 2009 the number of internet users grows by billion every month, 2010 Facebook users exceeds 500 million!!!

I also know from personal experience that the internet has turned out be a major part of our lives today, so much that we’ve managed to completely overlook some of the dangers that it poses...the fact that there’s neither rules, regulations nor transparency policies means that we’re constantly exposed to cyber criminals, especially on social networks. Cyber crooks are so sophisticated that you would not suspect them and they always gather their information from things that we take lightly. Below we have a few tips on how to protect your personal information on social networks.

1.   Always use privacy controls offered by the site you’re using.

2.  Use passwords that mix upper and lowercase letters with numbers and symbols.

3.  Do not post your real personal phone number and address.

4.  Do not post children’s names, even in photo tags and captions.

5.  Do not be specific when posting information about vacations and business trips.

6.  Do not upload pictures of you in front of your house where the address is visible.

7.  Ensure that your internet security software is always updated to avoid hackers.

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