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The History of the Development of the Internet

In 1961, Leonard Kleinrock wrote about ARPANET which was the first real network to run on packet switching technology. Packet switching is a way of transferring the data to a network in form of packets. In order to transfer a file quickly and efficiently over the network and minimise the transmission latency, the data is broken into small pieces of variable length, called Packet.In 1965 two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab were about to communicate with one another using packet-switching technology. In October 1969, computers at Stanford Research Institute and UCLA's Network Measurement Centre connected for the first time. The first message sent was "LO" which was an attempt to "LOGIN" to the computer. The system unfortunately crashes making this impossible.

In 1972 Email was created. Ray Tomlinson wrote the code for network email and sent the first email over the ARPANET. The University College of London and Royal Radar Establishment in Norway connected to ARPANE and the term Internet was born. France began its own ARPANET project, called CYCLADES. However it was eventually shut down.

In the 1980s the National Science Foundation funded national supercomputing centres at several universities in the United States. It provided interconnectivity in 1986 with the NSFNET project, which created network access to these supercomputer sites for research and academic organisations in America. Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in CERN in Switzerland by linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network.

The Internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture, business, technology, communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, telephone calls, two-way interactive video calls like FaceTime and Skype, and the World Wide Web with its blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites. Today, the Internet continues to grow, directed by the amounts of online information, commerce, entertainment, and social networking. History of internet