The Invention of the Internet

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1969: THE INTERNET 1969: The Invention of the Internet. WW Hood SS310: Exploring the 1960’s September 2, 2012 Abstract When the internet was created in 1969, no one could possibly see how much it would affect the way we live, interact, and socialize today. This paper looks at the goals and reasons for creating the internet, and how it has directly influenced the decisions I have made in my life. 1969: The Invention of the Internet Can you imagine the world today without the internet? Have you ever considered what affects the creation of the internet has had on our society today? Or how those affects influenced decisions that you have made about your education and career? In this paper we look at how and why the internet was created, products that have been developed due to the creation of the internet, the effects on society around the globe, and how they have influenced choices in my career and education. In the later part of the 1960’s, the main thing on the countries collective mind was the cold war and our national security. Obviously this meant the security of our nation’s resources and people, but it also meant the security of our information and our secrets. The military also needed a way to effectively communicate between each military installation. Researchers needed a way to share information, and a way to access the ‘super’ computers as they researched and made progress in technology. The ARPAnet (the first internet) was created in 1969 to meet each of these individual needs by connecting a series of geographically separated computers. These computers could then exchange that information as needed using the interaction rule (called a protocol) known as NCP or Network Control Protocol (Bellis, 2012). Charles M. Herzfeld says that ARPAnet was not created for military use at all; it was created specifically for researchers, by

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