Generation Alt®: The New Movement in Alternative Investing

Sixteen. Completing the Picture

For the general population, the Internet seemed to explode from nowhere. The first time many heard of it was during a speech by then Vice President Al Gore at UCLA in 1994, which referred to a new “information superhighway.”¹⁸⁴ Although in wide use just a few years later, the roots of the Internet can actually be traced as far back as 1962, when J.C.R. Licklider, an American computer scientist, first introduced the concept of a global network, “...where everyone on the globe is interconnected and can access programs and data at any site from anywhere.”¹⁸⁵

¹⁸⁴ Vice President Al Gore, “Remarks Prepared for Delivery ...