Believe it or not the internet has not always been around, in fact it
wasn't commercially available until 1995!.
The internet began in the 1960's with an experiment by the U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD), they wanted a computer network that would
survive... you guessed it a nuclear attack. This would enable the military
to maintain control of there missiles and bombers from any secure location
even if part of the network was incapacitated.
In 1969 the first network was assembled by the
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and was called ARPANET in linked
four US Universities. ARPA was renamed The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) and work began on establishing new protocols to
enable more diverse computer networks to communicate. ARPANET was using
Network Control Protocol which only allowed communication between host on
the same network.
1971 ARPANET grew in size to 23 hosts and 1973 it went
international connecting to hosts at universities in England and Norway.
Between 1974-81 the general public become aware of the uses of networked
computers and ARPANET begins to move away from it's military roots and
Telenet (1974) was the first commercial use and Usenet (1979) the first
ever discussion group. By 1981 ARPANET has 213 hosts.
1982-87 TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol) and the "Internet" were born. The IP part of TCP/IP is a
set of rules for one network communicating with another each internet use
needs to uniquely identified, the TCP part is responsible for breaking
down the original data into smaller packets and then verifying the correct
delivery of data and reassembling the original document at its final
destination. A basic analogy is the snail-mail postal system, the packet
is the envelope containing data the IP address is the house#, street name,
city and postal code and the TCP is the postal system ensuring the correct
delivery of the envelope.
1991 the World Wide Web was released to the general
public and by the end of 1992 there were about 50 websites world wide. In
reality the World Wide Web was not available for commercial use until
1995.
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