Invention of the Internet has revolutionized the entire world. ... Internet gained popularity drastically and become well known in an unexpectedly short amount of time. Even though it has some downfall the Internet has facilitated the modern life style in many ways. ... According to the Webster’s dictionary the word Internet means “a large computer network linking smaller networks worldwide”.
The history of the Internet dates back to the late 1950’s when USSR and United States of America were competing to excel each other in technology. In 1957 USSR launched their first artificial earth satellite (Hobbes Internet Timeline). ... A year later after USSR launched Sputnik, US created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958 as a part of the Defense Department (Hobbes Internet Timeline). ... The vision of the Internet that would revolutionize the computer and communications belonged to JCR Licklider of MIT. In 1962, he came up with the Galactic Network concept encompassing distributed social interactions (Hobbes Internet Timeline). ... In 1965, ARPA conducted a study on networks of time-
sharing computers (Hobbes Internet Timeline). ... Roberts puts together his plan for ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency) the first wide-area network (Hobbes Internet Timeline). ... In 1968, the contract to build Interface Message Processors was given to Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc (BBN) (Hobbes Internet Timeline). In 1969, the ARPAnet was born commissioned by DoD (Department of Defense) for research into networking (Hobbes Internet Timeline).
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