The internet we use it every day and cant seem to live with out it. A system so complexed yet so simple even a child can use it. The question is How is this global life line able to accommodate the demands of society? In this one of four part article i hope to shed light upon the time line of the internet and how the internet became what it is today.
From Development of computers in the 1950s there was a need to improve communication between systems.in fact in the “1960′ the US Department of Defense issued contracts to several computer science laboratories for the initial concept of packet networking and Arpanet” (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). this network facilitated the very first signal to be sent from the (UCLA) University of California Los Angeles to the Stanford Research and marking the birth place of what we know to be the internet.
Subsequently With the invention of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the early 1980’s, in conjunction with Arpanet to transmit or receive information securely over multiple networks leading to what we know as the internet. However, this system was only used by government and university officials.
Fast Forward a few years an Sir Timothy John Berners-lee a english computer scientist best know as the founder of the world wide web, Theorized that a common platform could link hypertext documents into a practical, usable system on the internet. A few months after theorizing he made the first successful communication he then used this research to create the Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML. HTML which allowed for the publication of rich multimedia onto the internet and paved the way for online commercial enterprises, Marking the humble beginning of the internet, but the story does not end there since the late 1990 the internet has revolutionize and even invoked a culture change in a way of eminence proportions and still shapes the world as we know it today.