October 19, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 96) • Page Image 7
… to know exactly how the so-called “Tracking Industry ‘’ came to be — especially because it might be on its way out. In April of 2021, Apple introduced a pop-up window to their products in which…
… between computers at Pentagon-funded research labs. Access to the ARPANET grew in 1981 when the National Science Foundation funded network access for University computer scientists. At this point…
… in time, what the NSF coined the ‘Computer Science Network’ was still intended primarily for communication among remote computers. By 1990, partnerships with corporations such as IBM and AT…
…&T began the transition of ARPANET technology into the private sector. Eventually, what was initially a technology intended for secure communication between computers at different locations…
… ballooned into one of the most ubiquitous tools in human history: the internet. In 1994, Lou Montulli created a way for websites to place a small file on every computer that visited the site, tracking…