Computer Networks and the Evolution of Security

The idea that a computer should be able to communicate with another computer is something that we completely take for granted in this day and age. When the first few modern computers were made that would perform very complex calculations, they took up entire floors of large office buildings. As companies most likely wanted to transfer this information to other offices with computers an idea was born. This evolution really came about as top universities found more and more uses of computers to solve their increasingly complex math problems. Arpanet was born through institutions of higher education, but security was still not the main focus. The main focus first was to just send information that could be correctly viewed and or read on another computer or terminal. Security became an issue as the value of having a computer network was realized by people who were interested in security itself. Primarily this was the military that knew that a venue to communicate would be great only if it could be done securely. Today, security and computer networking go together in business and personal use. People all understand the importance of passwords even if they do not want to use them. Where will the next step in computer networking take us?