2. Historical development of Big Data

2. Historical development of Big Data

1980's - networks started to appear across other countries, although possible, connection was still extremely difficult without travelling, the networks had to communicate in the same language as opposed to different ones. The principle link at CERN connected the US and Europe in 1989


1990's - remote access of data in the terabytes was now easily achievable around the world. To share data more easily, the web was created so that the actually location of the data wasn't necessary to know


2000's - Big data was now so large that CERN was unable to store such a vast amount of petabytes themselves and as such had to share it between partners around the world to offload some of it. This lead to the creation of cloud computing


2005 - The term Big Data is used for the first time by Roger Mougalas, a year after the creation of the term "web 2.0" which refers to data too large to handle with traditional business methods


2009 - India's government decides to employ biometric records in the form of iris scans, fingerprints and photographs of all the people living in the country and store it in the largest biometric database on the planet


sources - https://datafloq.com/read/big-data-history/239