Business Casual: The Past, Present, and Future of the Internet with Gerry Mecca

 

Gerry Mecca, IT expert and host of the Mecca Minute, joined Business Casual to discuss the 50th birthday of the internet.

From the early days of dial up modems and chat rooms to IoT and the cloud, no one could have predicted how the internet was going to develop in its first 50 years. Gerry and the guys relive some of that history and take a look at the issues facing the future of the internet as it currently exists today.

Will security issues continue to grow as more of our lives exist online? And how will regulations play a part moving forward? It’s all included in this excerpt from Business Casual.

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