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History of The Internet

The history of the Internet dates back to the 1960s with the development of packet switching and ARPANET, the first operational packet switching network. Key developments include TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s, DNS in 1984, and the creation of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, transforming global communication, commerce, and access to information.

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History of The Internet

The history of the Internet dates back to the 1960s with the development of packet switching and ARPANET, the first operational packet switching network. Key developments include TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s, DNS in 1984, and the creation of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, transforming global communication, commerce, and access to information.

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The History of the Internet

The history of the Internet dates back to the 1960s when the first concepts of packet switching were

developed.

In the late 1960s, the ARPANET project, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, created the

first operational

packet-switching network, which eventually evolved into the modern Internet. Key milestones

include the development

of TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s, the establishment of the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1984,

and the creation of

the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. The Internet has since grown exponentially,

transforming communication,

commerce, and access to information globally.

The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or

the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of

Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single

network. On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first message: a "node-to-node"

communication from one computer to another. The message-"LOGIN"-was short and simple, but it

crashed the fledgling ARPA network anyway: The Stanford computer only received the note's first

two letters.

Technology continued to grow in the 1970s after scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed

Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a communications model that set

standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple networks. ARPANET adopted TCP/IP

on January 1, 1983, and from there, researchers began to assemble the "network of networks" that
became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when

computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. While it's often confused with the

internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means of accessing data online in the form

of websites and hyperlinks. The web helped popularize the internet among the public, and served as

a crucial step in developing the vast trove of information that most of us now access on a daily

basis.

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