... the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W... ...ier InfoTech revolutionaries opened knowledge access to larger and larger segments of the population that put to use previously wasted intellect. •... ...ts a sense of (printing‘s) significance as a whole‖ when the topic is ―so segmented, subdivided and parceled out.‖ Print broke chains of ignorance... ... Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. 1990s  Wireless networking, webcams, GPS, smart phones. The pioneers Many creative ind... ...alking to each other on ARPAnet, the world‘s first multiple-site computer network. This pioneer packet-switching network then evolved into the Inter... ...e Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Internet‖ to some) and Bob ... ... Kahn wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). That let the various networks connect in a true ―Internet.‖ By the 1980s, it connected the comp...