The evolution of the Internet: from military experiment to General Purpose Technology

John Naughton

Journal of Cyber Policy, 2016, vol. 1, issue 1, 5-28

Abstract: The Internet is now over four decades old. A survey of its evolution from a military experiment conducted in the context of the Cold War to a General Purpose Technology illustrates the extent to which the network was shaped, not just by the intrinsic affordances of its underpinning technologies, but also by political, ideological, social, and economic factors.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/23738871.2016.1157619

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