Internet

The History of The Internet

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    The Internet

  • ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) is created by the USA

  • Leonard Kleinrock provides the theoretical foundations for Packet Networks

  • Fifteen sites connected to the young ARPANET by the end of 1971.

  • Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network oiginates

  • X.25 packet switching standard was developed in the CCIT

  • United States National Science Foundation commisioned the construction of the NSFNET

  • The opening of the network to commercial interests

  • CERN publicised the new World Wide Web

  • 1.67 Billion people are internet users.

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