I hate blogging so much it hurts.

An article in The New York Times discussed the change in movie releases to the public. Back in the day, movies were released in theaters where the public would pay $7-$10 dollars to view it. Nowadays, companies are discovering the popularity of the internet and have decided to take advatnage of it. They are now supplying movies to customers online. At a lower price and without the hassle of leaving the house, consumers are jumping at the new trend. While the movie companies are profitting from the new form of business, movie theaters and other movie suppliers are suffering from the decreasing revenues.

The rising popularity of the internet raised the question, when did this computer demon start? The first known form of the internet was 1969 when the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) designed a program for the military in order to send confidential information to and from various military headquarters. A few years later however, the idea of the internet became more popular and large companies began using the technology. As a result, the military created a new internet system, solely for their use in 1983, called MILnet. In 1986, a new form of networking was made, called NSFnet (National Science Foundation Network). NSFnet linked together the five national supercomputer centers at the time, every major university, and started to replace the older, and much slower, ARPAnet (which was finally shutdown in 1990). NSFnet formed the backbone of what we call the Internet today.