This year is the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Internet, and during this year, Apple announced the “new” i-Phone 3G, and its new software for i-Phones and i-Pods, i-Phone 2.0.  An article in Vanity Fair magazine, How the Web Was Won, outlines the invention and development of the Internet through an oral history of the key developers.  As the article suggests, the development began in 1958 with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).  The article offers an interesting history of how the Internet emerged and would be a great article for a high school course in technology.

The other important piece of information regarding the Internet has to be the announcement in California of the new or second generation i-Phone.  It is truly amazing.  I’ve been using an i-Phone for a year, and have found it crucial in most of the work that I do.  I brought it to England on our most recent visit, and it worked beautifully.  But the new i-Phone and i-Phone 2.0 software will provide developers, businesses, and schools with a new platform to create new applications and invent new ways of learning. 

You can read the article about the oral history of the Internet, and watch the video in which Apple presented the new i-Phone, and examples of new applications that will mark the power of the new phone.