Week 3 Topic 1 - The Interweb Thingy! As An 'Open Architecture'

Open Architecture - After having a cheeky look through Lister's reading and a couple of people's blogs, I think that the term 'open architecture' can be summarised as what the title suggests. The Internet is an open service of which any fool can log onto and talk whatever.
As a quote stated says 'it's intended to facilitate and exchange flow of data'.
In terms of architecture, it does seem to suggest that the internet is almost a project on which we build on. With Lister refering to facts on the topic, from 1969 the world saw 4 servers (but not surprising as they would consist of the ones at NASA) which grew to 200,000,000 by 2002.