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About the Course

The impact of technology and networks on our lives, culture, and society continues to increase. The very fact that you can take this course from anywhere in the world requires a technological infrastructure that was designed, engineered, and built over the past sixty years. To function in an information-centric world, we need to understand the workings of network technology. This course will open up the Internet and show you how it was created, who created it and how it works. Along the way we will meet many of the innovators who developed the Internet and Web technologies that we use today. What You Will Learn: After this course you will not take the Internet and Web for granted. You will be better informed about important technological issues currently facing society. You will realize that the Internet and Web are spaces for innovation and you will get a better understanding of how you might fit into that innovation. If you get excited about the material in this course, it is a great lead-in to taking a course in Web design, Web development, programming, or even network administration. At a minimum, you will be a much wiser network citizen....

Top reviews

TR

Aug 11, 2020

This course was awesome. A combination of the history, sociology and practical architectural / implementation elements of modern digital and internet technology. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks Chuck!

SB

Jan 6, 2016

This is an extremely important course. I would love to see it taught in high schools or in the first year of university. We should all understand how the Internet was developed and how it functions.

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By Aidan G

Oct 16, 2015

Excellent course, learned more about the internet (how it works, its history, etc) here than ANYWHERE else. Thank you!

By Edgaras Š

Oct 15, 2015

Playful and uncluttered with good hints for deeper study. Superb interviews with extraordinary people of internet era.

By vonschnappi

Sep 20, 2015

As a programmer and web developer, I find this course to be the missing piece from my bulk of knowledge about the web.

By DI, K

Jan 5, 2016

很棒的课程,令人敬佩的一点是,Charles会带着摄像机和我们学生,去采访互联网领域比较有名的人物(当然是跟课程相关的),比如令我印象深刻的有Java的开发者和亚马逊创始人,真的很了不起,对于我们学生来说,具有极大的趣味性,非常感谢!

By Lori B

Nov 19, 2015

Great high level overview. Dr. Chuck tells a great story and is very engaging and humorous throughout. I enjoyed it.

By dhoustonanja

Feb 6, 2017

Very informative course, it gave me a broad understanding of the world and how it stands in the age of the internet.

By Deleted A

Dec 5, 2015

After all these years I can understand TCP/IP layers and public/private key encryption. It was easy with Dr Chuck!!!

By Luv A

May 9, 2020

it's a great course to learn the basics of the internet and decide what would you like to study further in detail.

By Ranjan S

May 19, 2016

learn lots of things that is help full for my core subject networking and communication...thanks to my instructor.

By Philip P

Aug 25, 2015

Very insightful and interesting to see how the Internet came about from its humble beginnings in academic circles.

By Iwan D P

Jul 14, 2020

The lecture video and instructor overall good, but the meeting video was kinda boring and difficult to understand

By Diwas B

Dec 3, 2022

I really enjoy the course. Thank you Dr. Chuck for the amazing course presentations, slides, videos, resources.

By Trudy L

Jun 17, 2017

Very interesting and a useful and comprehensive background in the nature of technology for non-techie people.

By Jaydeep P

May 20, 2016

It was really good and informative to know about history of Internet and people who invented it. Really nice!

By Firo V K

Jan 19, 2016

Great course for any student interested in how the Internet come to be, and the people/technology behind it.

By Nafis K C

Mar 26, 2016

It was a very very helpful course for me. Many many thank Coursera, University of Michigan & the Professor.

By George G B

Sep 27, 2015

Fantastic course. Provides a good insight into the development of modern internet over the last few decades

By Grygoriy Z

Aug 21, 2015

Really enjoyed this course and great thanks Charles Severance and whole team who has developed this course.

By Donald A

Sep 21, 2017

Great lectures, and greta connections to students. 1st Class in every way.

"Sent from my ENIAC Computer"

By Anastasia S

Nov 2, 2015

Great course to get an idea how internet developed and to have a foundation to look deeper. Thanks for it!

By Jose R C

Sep 26, 2015

I am Sociologist, and I wanted to have a broad view of what is Internet. Thanks, you have helped me a lot.

By Павел Г

Apr 28, 2023

an interesting course on the history of the Internet, its technologies and security and a cool instructor

By Martin I

Jul 9, 2020

A very interesting course, with which you can learn internet history and all its technical peculiarities.

By Bryan H

Nov 13, 2015

Dr. Chuck was awesome. I found the course very informative and definitely entertaining at times. 5 stars

By Luis D C

Feb 6, 2023

Excelent. I really apreciate the information and explanatios of Dr. Chuck. Great Material and Interviews