In the early 60’s, a group of visionaries anticipated the very idea of the Internet that shortly after the cold war, the U.S Department of Defence (DOD) began to realize the incredible potential value that shall come from a control center system that protects the flow of information between in case of nuclear attacks, by establishing a network of computers geographically distributed and sharing data. So, they funded the Advanced Research Project Agency (APRA) to start a project (Bellis, 2011). APRA proceeded with the idea as a military experiment. Meanwhile, at the CERN (Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire) in Switzerland, a proposal was made with an academic approach for a technology that will enable collaboration in the physics community to connect research institutes and universities together, allowing scientists to share files and academic study resources (Gribble, 2011). The Internet development had many groundbreaking milestones to cover, mutating it from a simple package of protocols into a complete working platform of worldwide information. The spotlight is thrown on the beginnings of ARPANET, HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) technology and the WWW (World Wide Web) birth at CERN, till reaching the Internet development in the late 20th Century.
On the 2nd of September 1969, six weeks after Armstrong landed on the moon, the first test of ARPANET took place at the University of California between 2 computers exchanging data (Hauben, 2009). The system crashed during the experiment, but with the proof of a theoretical view, a revolution started. In his article, Griffiths illustrates the first network of computers connecting UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara and University of Utah “...
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In 1983, Mitnick used a computer at the University of Southern California to access ARPanet. ARPanet was the one of the first networks that used packet switching networks, the first network to implement TCP/IP and was the predecessor for what we now know as the Internet. Through his ARPanet access he was able to break into the Pentagon. Though he was legally an adult, for this offense, Mitnick received another light sentence of just six months at another juvenile prison.
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The history of the internet shows that the internet is not a new medium. The internet was initially created in the 1960's to as a way for the United States to stay connected in case of a nuclear fallout due to the possible consequences of the Cold War. F...
Term Paper: The History of the Internet The Internet began like most things in our society, that is to say that the government started it. The Internet started out as an experimental military network in the 1960s. Doug Engelbart prototypes an "Online System" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing, editing, email, and so on. The Internet is a worldwide broadcasting resource used for distributing information and a source for interaction between people on their computers. In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds.
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