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History of the Internet
Introduction
The internet is a communication tool. It is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to connect billions of users across the world.
The 60's - The beginning
In 1962 the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense started the project that became the ARPANET and, much later, the Internet.
The 70's - Research & Development
Host-to-host connectivity and switching layers of protocol stack were designed in 1970 by the Network Working Group (NWG) led by Steve Crocker. Later on in 1973, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description TCP protocols and the next 9 years were spent developing the TCP/IP system.
- History of the Computer
- TCP/IP Protocol system
- DNS/Domain Name System
- BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
- UDP-User Datagram Protocol
- Torrent
The 80's - The age of bulletin boards
The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network went online in 1983. The National Science Foundation built the NSFNET using DARPA's TCP/IP protocols, and merged with other networks including MCI Mail, UUNET, PSINET and CERFNET by the end of the 80s to form the first internet.
The 90's - The beginning of the WorldWide Web
In 1991, CERN, a pan-European organization for particle research, announced the World Wide Web project, invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. During the late 1990s, public traffic on the Internet grew by 100 percent per year. Because the protocols were not copyrighted by any one company, the internet grew organically as a free space for global communication.
The 00's - Stabilisation
By the year 2000, the internet as we know it had taken shape. The invention of social networking sites like Myspace and, later, Facebook, has been called by some the Internet 2.0, but allows a small number of companies like Google and Facebook to own the information of a huge number of users, making major profits from it.
The Future of the Internet ... No more privacy?
Huge increases in processing speed could make it possible for people's travelling, spending and living habits to be monitored at all times and used for ever more individualised marketing purposes, or possibly for government useage? Where are the limits of personal privacy in the modern age? Is there an authority which can set boundaries to the spread of technology, or will all laws be outdated before they are even written?