what is the origin of internet?

Question

history, technique

Answer 1

It started out as ARPANET for the US Military. Check out WikiPedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Answer 2

Internet - Hardware
World Wide Web - Software

The internet was originally called the ARPANet [Advanced Research Projects Network] and was designed to link the Air Force, Navy and Marines in such a way that if one was destroyed the other two could still communicate

It was this structure which led to the creation of a global network which we call the internet

Today we are still linked in such a way that if one country was obliterated the others could still communicate [see map below]

Answer 3

at first the internet was only a small scale network. it only connected universities somewhere is usa whose scientists wanted to share their research material and work.
then the ARPANET was started by the US Military.
it then grew in popularity and gradually more and more networks or computers gort connected to it.
then it was called as INTERNET.
INTER meaning between and NET means network.
thus internet is a network of networks.
currently there are more than a billion users worldwide connected to the internet. the internet with the current IP addresing system can support only 4.5 billion people.

Answer 4

The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally inter-connected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.

In late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", publishing it in 1967. At the conference where he presented the paper, there was also a paper on a packet network concept from the UK by Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury of NPL. Scantlebury told Roberts about the NPL work as well as that of Paul Baran and others at RAND. The RAND group had written a paper on packet switching networks for secure voice in the military in 1964. It happened that the work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work. The word "packet" was adopted from the work at NPL and the proposed line speed to be used in the ARPANET design was upgraded from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps.

In August 1968, after Roberts and the DARPA funded community had refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET, an RFQ was released by DARPA for the development of one of the key components, the packet switches called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). The RFQ was won in December 1968 by a group headed by Frank Heart at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). As the BBN team worked on the IMP's with Bob Kahn playing a major role in the overall ARPANET architectural design, the network topology and economics were designed and optimized by Roberts working with Howard Frank and his team at Network Analysis Corporation, and the network measurement system was prepared by Kleinrock's team at UCLA.

Answer 5

The modern internet is credited to Tim Berners Lee. You can look at http://info.cern.ch/ to find out more. The internet didn't spring up overnight. There were many private networks before the 90's, usually in Universities, banks and large corporations.

Answer 6

It all started with an international network for universities in the 80's. This network was helpful in sharing information between the universities.

Answer 7

I heard it was originally used by the US Military for communications. Look it up on wikipedia...

Answer 8

Combination of US universities linking computers together and a fair bit of military/space agency money funding it.

Answer 9

I think it started off with the American Military, processing information that could be useful to National Security.

Answer 10

To answer that question would cover enough pages to make a book. So, I suggest you go to the library and read a book on the subject.