The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of Wide Area Networking originated in several computer science laboratories in US, UK, & France.
- ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. Then, the online world took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW).
- On 6 August 1991, the WWW went live to the world. There was no fanfare in the global press. In fact, most people around the world didn't even know what the Internet was. Even if they did, the revolution the Web ushered in was still but a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye.
- The internet began life in 1969, when scientists working for the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now known as DARPA) connected computer networks at the University of California and the Stanford Research Institute.
- The internet protocols (TCP/IP) happened following initiatives taken by the US Government. The WWW was invented by a British guy (while working at Cern). This brought us HTTP and websites. His work was inspired by the idea of hypertext. Hypertext as a concept had been bouncing around for a while.
- Many people have heard that the Internet began with some military computers in the Pentagon called Arpanet in 1969. Bob Taylor, the Pentagon official who was in charge of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or Arpanet) program, insists that the purpose was not military, but scientific.
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