The History of the Internet: From ARPANET to WWW
In this article the development of the Internet is described as a process that began with military experiments and became one of the most crucial tools for people’s communication in the modern world. Here's a detailed overview of its development: The Origins: ARPANET: 1960s: ARPA was established in the United States Department of Defense and it is the birth place of the Internet, although its first name was ARPANET. The objective was to establish a network that could function even if some of the structures were attacked. 1969: The first message was transmitted on ARPANET on October 29,1969 from UCLA’s computer to that of Stanford University. The message was to be LOGIN but due to the system failure it only displayed LO. Early Development: The network was first established between four computers of the universities of California, namely UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. It employed a technique known as packet switching where data is divided into