Internet has become an important staple of the world economy. From shopping to news to how businesses operate is has impacted many businesses from many different parts of the world. However, the internet wasn’t something that just came out of nowhere. The internet has origins and evolution that have made the internet as big and as useful as it is today. According to an article written on history.com (2015) the original thought process behind computer networking came from the fear that the Soviet Union could take out the United States telephone infrastructure with a single missile. The thought process was that by creating a network of computers that talked to each other, the government could still communicate even if the Soviet Union took out the telephone system. They created a network known as the Arpanet which was a way for information to be sent by way of packet switching or the breaking down of data in to packets (History.com, 2015). In the 1970’s the network of computers was growing, but because of the lack of network protocols it was becoming increasingly difficult for integration in to a single of what would in the future be called the internet (History.com, 2015). The protocol that was being used in the 70’s was called the Network Control Protocol. The main problem with using that protocol was it only worked with certain types of computers. There were several types of computers that wanted to connect to the Arpanet but couldn’t because the protocols didn’t
But how does it work? The internet, based on the concept of “packet switching”, involves the travelling of small packets of data over one or more networks (Frenzel, 2013). This can be compared to “electronic postcards”, meaning that “a computer generates a piece of data and flings it into the net, just like the postal system, except 100 million times faster” (Cerf, 2013). This concept allows one computer to speak to many different computers around the network by sending out these “electronic postcards”. However, before these networks can work seamlessly together, they must use a common protocol, or set of rules for transmitting and receiving these packets of data. There are several protocols currently in use, including the OSI Model, the TCP/IP Model, UDP, HTTP, and FDP (Mitchell, 2014), but the most commonly used is Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (Gilmer, 2011). Even as early as 1977, TCP/IP was being used by other networks to link to ARPANET (Kozierok,
J.C.R. Licklider first developed the idea of the Internet in a series of papers published in 1962. However, the infrastructure that would eventually become the Internet was developed by the United States government in the late Sixties. This network, called the ARPANET, sent its first bits of data in 1969. However, as the network got larger, the packets of data were becoming increasingly difficult for the network to handle. Therefore, protocols were developed to help facilitate smooth transfers of data. These evolved into TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), which are the basis on which the modern Internet runs. TCP/IP made it easy to integrate new networks, thus allowing for an increasing infrastructure on which the Internet
We have come a long way from paper based systems through the use of a computer for efficient data processing. The creation of local area networks (LAN) all the way through opening channels for communication and knowledge sharing on a much larger scale. This is where the introduction to connecting LAN networks to the internet came about. The internet allows for seamless communication to take place virtually right around the world. Technology with the use of the internet has changed the way we
The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form the US Department of Defense's communications systems. Fearing the consequences of nuclear attack, there was no central computer holding vast amounts of data, rather the information was dispersed across thousands of machines. A set of rules, of protocols, known as TCP/IP was
The two authors follow the story from the conception of the idea of "packet switching" in the early 1960s to the creation and development of the Internet. We see how one idea led to another and how the intelligent people around the circumstances influenced the developments.
The ARPAnet was created as a computer version of the nuclear bomb shelter to protect the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of computers that exchanged information. This system, known as the grandfather to the internet, was launched in 1969. The ARPAnet was the predecessor to the internet. It helped during the Cold War in the United States and led to many technologies later established. The ARPAnet had a main purpose of preventing nuclear strike from the Soviet Union.
network (ARPANET) meant to promote the sharing of super-computers amongst researchers in the United States.” (Kristula, pg 68). Through the next couple years there were talks of about how this network could come into the cooperate world. In 1969 researchers at four US campuses created the first hosts of the ARPANET. They connected the Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. The ARPANET was a success from the very beginning. Although originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, email quickly became the most popular application. The ARPANET became a high-speed digital post office as people use it to collaborate on research projects and discuss topics of various interests. In 1971 the ARPANET grows to 23 hosts connecting universities and government research centers around the country. In 1972, the Inter-Networking Working Group becomes
They saw a great potential value of Internet in scientific and military field, and sharing the informations. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT was one of the visionary people. He’s the first one who proposed the global network. Then the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) took over the program of developing global network at late 1962 with MIT and University of California at Los Angeles. At 1965, they connected a Massachusetts’ computer with a California computer which was a big progress. Robert moved to DARPA and started his plan for ARPANET which was the real start of the Internet’s life. At 1969, during the Cold War, the program’s purpose changed to "to aid researchers in the process of sharing information, and not coincidentally to study how communications could be maintained in the event of nuclear attack". Fortunately, with the developed of Internet technique. It’s usage became wider. Like later the emergence of ARPANET include many usages such as file transfer, sent e-mail, and even online discuss. In 1973, APRA continued a program named “Internetting Project” for "to develop communication protocols which would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks". The development of Internet had never stopped. By 1980s, private could use Internet which we called “TCP/IP”, and it was funded by National
That paved way for development of more advanced digital tools such as computers. By the end of the 1960s there were numerous governmental organizations, military as well as some other organizations that had employed computers for their use. The conception of the idea of internet was laid down when ARPANET (an early packet switching network) was used to send a message in the year 1969. ARPANET was the first network that implemented the TCP/ IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol),a technology used even today for transmission of data packets in internet. Many other packet switching networks such as Mark I, Tymnet, Telenet that workedon various protocols were developed apart from ARPANET during the 1960s.
Communication is a major concern back in the old ages, letter was the commonly used medium of it until telegraph was invented in 1792, and this allowed messages to be delivered over a great distance. In the late 1800s the radio and the telephone both improved the means of communication, it brought communication to a higher level. Technology began to change tremendously in the 20th century. With the first supercomputer in 1940s, professionals began to experiment ways to bridge networks within these computers and this leads us to the bloom of the Internet Age. In 1969 “CompuServe” ignited the Internet age, it was one of the first the commercial Internet Providers in the United States. They used the dial-up connection to connect to the web. This
The two authors follow the story from the conception of the idea of "packet switching" in the early 1960s to the creation and development of the Internet. We see how one
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