of the Industry .......................
4.3 E-Commerce ................................................
4.4 Industry Variations by Global Region ............
4.5 Section Notes .............................................
5.0 THE LATIN AMERICAN INTERNET INDUSTRY ....
5.1 Section Preview ..........................................
5.2 Development of the Industry .......................
5.3 Issues Relevant to Future Growth .................
5.4 Industry Variations by Country ....................
5.5 Section Notes .............................................
6.0 PLAYERS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN INDUSTRY .
6.1 Section Preview .........................................
6.2 ISPs and Horizontal Portals ........................
6.3 Vertical Portals .........................................
6.4 E-Commerce Firms .....................................
6.5 Section Notes ............................................
7.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................
The history and development of the Internet are reviewed in this section. This review deals with the technological development of the Internet, as opposed to the applications of the technology.
It is important to place the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) within the context of the broader history of the development on information technology (IT). Viewing the development of the Internet as a progression in the development of an information system that began with the linking of North America and Europe with the Atlantic cable in 1858 places the development of the Internet in a perspective that enables one to speculate on future developments in IT that will render the Internet as obsolete at some future time as the Atlantic cable is obsolete in 2000.
The Atlantic cable of 1858 was established to carry instantaneous communications across the ocean for the first time. Although the laying of...