A Brief History Of The Internet

What I have learned about the history of the internet

( All Information was found on the website: http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet)

Birth of the ARPANET

1962 - 1965

Scientists and Military were worried about what would happen if the Soviet attacked the nations telephone systems, just one missile could destroy the whole network of lines and wires the made long-distance communication possible.

In 1962 a scientist proposed a solution to this problem: a "galactic network" of computers that could talk to each other, this network would enable long-distance communication even if the telephone systems were destroyed.

In 1965 another scientist developed a way of sending information from one computer to another which he called “packet switching.” Packet switching breaks data down into packets, before sending it to its destination. Without packet switching, the government’s computer network, now known as the ARPAnet would have been just as vulnerable to enemy attacks as the phone system.

Login
1969

ARPAnet delivered its first message:  “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 computer that received the message only received the note’s first two letters.

The Network Grows
1969 - 1971

At the end of 1969, just four computers were connected to the ARPAnet, the network grew steadily during the 1970s. In 1971, it added the University of Hawaii’s ALOHAnet, and two years later it added networks at London’s University College and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway. As packet-switched computer networks multiplied, however, it became more difficult for them to integrate into a single worldwide “Internet.”

By the end of the 1970s, a computer scientist named Vinton Cerf had begun to solve this problem by developing a way for all of the computers on all of the world’s mini-networks to communicate with one another. He called his invention “Transmission Control Protocol,” or TCP. (Later, he added an additional protocol, known as “Internet Protocol.” The acronym we use to refer to these today is TCP/IP.) 

THE WORLD WIDE WEB
1980 - 1993

Cerf’s protocol transformed the Internet into a worldwide network. Throughout the 1980s, researchers and scientists used it to send files and data from one computer to another. However, in 1991 the Internet changed again. That year, a computer programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web: an Internet that was not simply a way to send files from one place to another but was itself a “web” of information that anyone on the Internet could retrieve. Berners-Lee created the Internet that we know today.


In 1992, a group of students and researchers at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic. Mosaic offered a user-friendly way to search the Web: It allowed users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time and to navigate using scrollbars and clickable links. That same year, Congress decided that the Web could be used for commercial purposes. As a result, companies of all kinds hurried to set up websites of their own, and e-commerce entrepreneurs began to use the Internet to sell goods directly to customers. 

The Web Today
1994 - 2017

Since then, the Internet has changed in many ways, like going from dial up internet connections to broadband and WIFI.
In 2004 social networking site Facebook become a popular way for people of all ages to stay connected. 
The birth of YouTube in 2005 changed how people used the net


More recently, other forms of social media accounts have become a every day way to use the net like: instagram, pinterest, twitter and tumblr.

A lot of the internet these days people use on the cell phones which use apps that social media have to get more people to use their websites / apps.