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INTERNET Inventors: Larry Roberts ARPAnet, the direct ancestor of the Internet, was created in 1969 to protect the flow of information between military installations. It created a network of geographically isolated computers that could exchange  information
through a newly developed protocol, the NCP. The first data communication
occurred between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute. Larry Roberts, the
original architect, had devised an outline by 1968. ARPAnet connected four
universities in the US: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara,
and the University of Utah.Several major inventions sprung out of ARPAnet, 
such as email and remote access to a computer. As more and more uses for
the network were found, the amount of people that had access to ARPAnet
increased. Eventually the military created MILnet, a military only
network. Out of the second generation NSFnet emerged the Internet, or
information superhighway, that today allows for the mass transmission of
information and the ability to communicate with others all over the world.
Within four years of opening it to the general public, 50 million people
were using the Internet.(See WWW and E-mail.) *Bottom picture from http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/chap2.html Sources: |
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