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The Beginning Thoughts of the Internet
The internet first started forming at the start of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which originally was centered around developing space technology and defense mechanism. However, some people were concerned about a possible attack on the national phone lines. As a result, J.C.R. Licklider, an M.I.T. graduate, suggested creating a network of computers that could communicate to each other, like a "galactic network." -
What is "Packet Switching"?
Another M.I.T. scientist proposed the idea of "packet switching", a way of sending info from one computer to another by breaking the info down into chunks. -
So It's Now ARPAnet?
The agency, formerly known as ARPA, is now known as ARPAnet, referring to the soon-to-be social computer network. -
"LOGIN" Did It Work?
ARPAnet began testing to see if their communication would accurately deliver data from one computer to another. Each computer was the size of about a small house, but it still made the network crash after an attempt of sending "LOGIN" failed. -
Networking Progressions
As 1969 was nearing its end, only 4 computers were connected to the computer network, but it considerably was growing at a slow, steady rate with more networks being invented. -
The "Transmission Control Protocol?" What's That?
Near the end of the decade, Vinton Cerf developed a way for each of the other mini-network computers to communicate with each other. He invented the "transmission Control Protocol" (TCP) and the "Internet Protocol" to connect all the computers together so they can communicate properly in virtual space. -
What is ALOHAnet?
Two years after the addition of ALOHAnet, the equivalent to ARPAnet (but in Hawaii), at the University of Hawaii, the London University College and the Royal Radar Establishment each received a network, although it became more difficult to consolidate all the networks into one specific "internet." -
So When DID the Internet Become More Modern?
All throughout the 1980s, people had begun communicating data and files within computers until the Internet changed again in 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a programmer in Switzerland, proposed the idea of the "World Wide Web" to not only communicate, but to provide website information for anyone in the public. This became the modern internet as we know it today, and it was still continuing to improve. -
Mosaic and Netscape
Students and researchers from the University of Illinois designed a sophisticated web browser known as Mosaic, which later would become Netscape. It was user-friendly and contained hyperlinks with information, pictures, and words all on the same page. This would become the internet as we know it today, and with more improvements, we use it more efficiently.