The History of the Internet

Pre-existing to the evolving of the Internet, in 1960, an academic research project was funded by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), it was called ARPANET. ARPANET was used to connect the University of Utah with some research centers in California of the United States. The project used a transmission called “packet-switching” which was able to break down data into small “packets” that could have been transmitted electronically. Between the years of 1970 and 1979, ARPANENT expanded to other schools including Harvard University. Each school obtained a router that was called an ‘Interface message Processor’ that was very expensive. The project also expanded to other countries such as Hawaii, Norway and London by using a satellite link to connection point in the United States (U.S). In 1980, ARPANET’s largest application was started, it was called Usenet. Usenet was an online communication area where discussions where held by all the members of ARPANET, Usenet can be called a very old version of today’s social Medias: Facebook and Twitter. The network was first managed by the U.S. military but it was later agreed that different networks be managed by different organization instead of having one operator. For this to have occurred the networks would have to run using a set or agreed-upon standards. This setup was then called the Internet. The U.S Military then asked the computer scientist Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf to produce new networking standards to ensure the future of the Internet.  The work they created turned into what is known as TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) and on January 1st, 1983, ARPANET to TCP/IP which noted the creation of the internet as we know it today.

Referece : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet