History and the impact of the internet

Your SLP assignment is to consider the great dot-com boom and bust and to understand its influence on the Internet of today. The dot-com bubble was the major watershed in the brief history of the Internet.

There is certainly no shortage of material describing this significant set of events. Probably the best place to begin for an overview is the following video:

CWnEconomy. (2012, February 24). Dot-com bubble documentary. [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FybpdrlYM

Here are two other good sources tracing these events:

Norwood, J. (2011). History of the Internet timeline. High Speed Internet. Retrieved from http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/articles/internet-timeline.html

WiseGeek. (2012). What was the dot-com bubble? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-dot-com-bubble.htm

you are encouraged to do your own independent research on the Internet itself; Google can deliver to you in seconds vast quantities of information. Try not to drown in it, however.

Optional Reading

Kehoe, B. (1992). Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginners Guide to the Internet. First Edition. Retrieved from http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html

Spirecast Team. (2009). History of e-commerce. Retrieved from Spirecast: http://www.spirecast.com/history-of-e-commerce/

SLP 1 Assignment
You are expected to address the following questions in your paper:

What are the positive and negative effects of the dot-com bubble burst on the Internet of today?
What lessons were learned from the dot-com bubble burst? What is your conclusion about the major effects of the dot-com bubble burst  on the current Internet?