The Virtual Revolution

The Virtual Revolution went through the history of the web. It explained how the ideas of the web started in San Francisco in the early 1960s. The idea came from hippie culture and values. They wanted free will to say what they wanted and believed in libertarianism, which means rejecting state control and rebelling. With the web their would be no ownership and a free flow of information at all times. This lead to the first email being born in 1965, this was due to something called the intranet which meant that cpmputers were able to connect to eachother locally, however computers from all over the world could not be connected to eachother. This was due to there being no common language until the HTML was created. Bill Gates microsoft company was created in 1965. This then lead to the first web community called the well which was creating in 1985 in San Fransisco. In 1991 on August 6th, Tim Bernes Lee released web software. The creator of the web created a social and cultural innovation by bringing people together, letting the population use it free of charge and by resisting authority. Today 25% of the world are using the web with a massive 35 million people in britain alone logging on to the web. Shawn Fanning was the creator of the very first music download website in 1999 encouraging people to illegally download music free of charge. Since then 95% of music is now downloaded illegally creating a £53 million loss in revenue from the free downloading of film, Tv and music.