History Of Internet
- The History of Internet begins with the development of electronic computers along with the development of wide area networks in the United States.
- The U.S. Department of Defence awarded contact for the development of the ARPANET project in the early 1960s.The first message was sent over the ARPANET in 1969.
- Packet switching networks such as the NPL network, ARPANET, Merit Network, CYCLADES, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of communications protocols.
- The ARPANET project led to the development of protocols for internetworking, in which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks.
- The Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was developed in 1970s and become the standard networking protocol on the ARPANET.
- In the early 1980s the NSF initiated the development of national supercomputing centers at several universities, and interconnected them in 1986 with the NSFNET project. This created network access to the supercomputers from research and education organizations.
- Commercial Internet service providers(ISPs) began to emerge in the very late 1980s.The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.
- Limited private connections to parts of the Internet by officially commercial entities began in sevaral American cities by late 1989 and 1990. The NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, which removed the last restrictions on the use of the Internet for commercial traffic.
- In the 1980s, the british computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network.
- Since the mid-1990s, the Internet started to have a great impact on culture, commerce, and technology. There was a phenomenal rise in the communication by electronic mail, instant messanging,voice over Internet protocol(VoIP) telephone calls, two-way interactive video calls and the world wide web.
- The rate of data transmission increased due to the use of fiber optic networks from 1 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s, or more.
- The internet took over the global communication landscape almost instantly. It only communicated 1% of the total information in the year 1993, that increasrd to 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.
