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History of The Internet

The US Department of Defense created the Internet in the 1960s to establish a communication system that could withstand a nuclear attack. They developed a system called packet switching that broke messages into packets that could be rerouted if needed. ARPANET, a early packet switched network, was launched in 1969 for military use but evolved into the civilian Internet. In the early 1990s, the Internet was used mainly by academics, government, and researchers for email, newsgroups, file transfers while the World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 using HTML, became the most popular Internet application.

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History of The Internet

The US Department of Defense created the Internet in the 1960s to establish a communication system that could withstand a nuclear attack. They developed a system called packet switching that broke messages into packets that could be rerouted if needed. ARPANET, a early packet switched network, was launched in 1969 for military use but evolved into the civilian Internet. In the early 1990s, the Internet was used mainly by academics, government, and researchers for email, newsgroups, file transfers while the World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 using HTML, became the most popular Internet application.

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History of the Internet and the World Wide Web

 Internet;
Mid 1960’s, during the cold war, the Americans were worried about a possible
attack on their control and command system by a Russian nuclear attack. The US defence
department wanted a system that would survive a nuclear bomb.
At the time, the system being used was telephone based otherwise known as point-
to-point. The trouble with this system was that it needed a physical connection between the
hosts.
To solve this problem, ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency’(ARPA), was set up.
It was their idea of packet switching which changed the way the internet works.

 Packet Switching;
This is when a message is broken down into smaller chunks, called packets. These
packets are then sent to the recipient. The packets can be sent via different routes if needed. If
there is a failure is the sending of the message, e.g. the sender does not receive confirmation,
the message will be sent again via a different route.

 ARPANET;
This was launched in 1969 in the USA. It was purely for military uses only. But
during the mid 1980’s it evolved into the internet. There is not a precise date for this as it was the
students in the universities where the prototype was tested that first started using the internet, without
realising what that it would be such a significant event.

 Early 1990’s;
The internet used by…
1. Academies
2. Government
3. Industrial researchers.
The internet used for…
1. E-mail
2. Newsgroups
3. Remote logins
4. Document/ file transfer.
 World Wide Web (WWW);
In 1989, the WWW was invited by a British physicist called Tim
Berners-Lee. Lee, with along with a group of scientists, developed the language HTML,
(Hypertext mark up language). In 1993 the WWW became of age and is now the most
popular use of the internet. It’s important to remember that the Web is an application of the
internet.

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