The History Of The Internet

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The History of the Internet The internet was thought up in the early 1960’s by people who saw potential in the fact that information and research could be shared between computers. A researcher at M.I.T named J.C.R Licklider proposed a plan for a global network of computers and went to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop it. In 1966 Lawrence Roberts of M.I.T moved over to DARPA to develop his plans for the ARPANET. The ARPANET was brought online in 1969 under a contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The internet’s sole purpose at that time was to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by a nuclear attack. The internet was mainly used by computer experts, scientists, engineers and librarians. Anyone who used the internet in those days had to learn how to use a very complex system. On October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected to the internet for the first time; to that effect they were the very first hosts of the internet. As the internet evolved in the early 1970’s, the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) was conceived to unify the different network methods. Since computers could only communicate with other computers if they were on the same network, so the TCP/IP was developed to solve this. The E-mail was developed for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972. He picked the @ symbol from the available symbols on his teletype to link usernames and addresses. In 1985 the internet was strictly a text based system, there were no images as we see today. The Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LAN) that was brought into commercial use in May 22, 1973. In the 1980s Joseph Lechleider came up with the solution for a faster internet speed. He figured out how to transmit data

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