A SHORT HISTORY OF
THE INTERNET
The Internet was the result of
visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great
potential in allowing computers to share information on research
and develpoment in the scientific and the military fields. J.C.R.
Licklider of MIT, proposed the idea of a global networkof compuuters
in the year 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency in late 1962 to head the development of it. Lawrence
Roberts of MIT connected a computer in Massachusetts with a computer
in California in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. The Internet,
which was then known as ARPANET, was put online in 1969. The Internet
was designed in part to provide a communications network that
would work even if some of the sites were destroyed in a nuclear
attack.
Copyright Brandon Cipoletta 2006
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