How was internet discovered?

[imported_DON]

:salute: Do you know that
During the 1950s, several communications researchers realized that there was a need to allow general communication between users of various computers and communications networks. This led to research into decentralized networks, queuing theory, and packet switching. The subsequent creation of ARPANET in the United States in turn catalyzed a wave of technical developments that made it the basis for the development of the Internet. Contrary to popular myth, the DoD did not create the ARPANET so that they could communicate to the US Government after a nuclear war.

The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational in 1984 when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1995. Important separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged into the Internet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 networks such as Compuserve and JANET. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of Internet as a phrase to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.

The collective network gained a public face in the 1990s. In August 1991 CERN in Switzerland publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few web pages at CERN in Switzerland. In 1993 the Mosaic web browser version 1.0 was released, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 the word "Internet" was common public currency, but it referred almost entirely to the World Wide Web.

Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks such as FidoNet have remained separate). This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network. :salute:

[ravenbee]

wow erhm,...very long lol

[cazcar10]

very interesting also i allways thought teh nazi created it :P

[undergroundforum.net.tc]

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[gearbird]

Internet is called as a networks of network first designed to serve US Army during world war II. That time it is called as ARPA, Which is a colloection of computers which are connected with each other and allowed to share data between eatch other.

If any one of the computers got damaged others can able to share informations.

Then this system is allowed to used by US Universities. First users are of stanford and other major american university but it was resticted between researchers itself.

then during 80's Tim berners Lee who is the father of internet(WWW) found TCP/IP protocol which helped him to transmit data sucessfully between two computers which are different from each other. he discovered a lot of related technologies which allowed all the members to share the data and information. He created W3C which is the governing body of internet related technologies.

Due to his discovery internet got most popularity and went public during 1990's and We indians got during 1995 Aug 15.

[mhz_lain08]

nice. so this is were internet really starts. hmm sounds interesting