Book review

The Story of The Internet

As a concern about technology, American President, Eisonhower, announced a new organization that would control the government’s high technology work that called ARPA. ARPA was working in computing area.

In the beginning, computers were sited in some universities, acted as a stand-alone machine. They did their own work and they had different systems. But later on, the computers could talk to each other’s.

To make two computers could talk, it needed additional equipment that named IMP. IMP was a box, which stand between the different computer systems. It would translate between different networks and reduced the number of differences between them.

Internet was used at first time in 1973, which meant a network of networks.

Personal Computer (PC) was invented by Altair, but only the hardware not the software. So, to make it run, it needs software, which created by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in that time.

World wide web (www) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. It could make electronic connection within different documents on different computers.

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i am really sorry because i forgot the author's name, what a silly mistake

Book

Book title : The Computer Virus

Author : Stephen Seight

There were two groups of students who made free newspapers to their town. The first groups consist of Barbara and Gary. Their newspaper was called Bargain Bazaar. The second one was named Advertiser that consists of three teenagers. They were Andy, Kath and Tony Strong.

They published the newspaper every week. They used computer to type, edit and compose stories. They competed each other to get a lot of costumers, but Advertiser cheated. One day, they intruded to Bargain Bazaar office and left a virus in their computer.

Bargain Bazaar didn’t take a long time to know who did it. After that Advertiser apologized what they had done. They tried to fix it, but it didn’t work. So Bargain Bazaar had to use typewriter in that time. They wrote story about virus and a big ad. The ad was about reward for somebody who could kill their virus.

Only one could do that, she was Samantha. So she got fifty pounds.

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I wrote this book review when i was at IALF Surabaya in 2007. Would you please give some comment?
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