2006-12-27 17:34:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
The Internet was originally designed during the 1960s and 1970s by the US Advanced Research Project Agency (or Defence Advanced Research Project Agencey). It was called ARPANET. It first connected large mainframe computers (mainly at large universities).
They used what is called a redundant design: basically, if one, or a group of servers or connections are lost, the rest of the systems still worked and stayed connected. Remember, this was designed during the Cold War, so they created it to withstand an atomic bomb.
The development of the Internet has moved on from the US government and is managed by both private and public organizations. The network is still a redundant system, with all the servers relying on the other servers.
2006-12-27 18:29:59 · answer #1 · answered by Computer Geek 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
depends on when you want to measure it from, but earliest inter-computer communications happened in 1962 with the creation of ARPANET
Remember, the internet is not just the World Wide Web. It includes other network connections.
2006-12-28 01:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by arus.geo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
16 years?
The Web was created around 1990 by the Englishman Tim Berners-Lee working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
2006-12-28 01:39:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask Al Gore he claims he invented the internet.
here is a link to the internet page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Creation_of_the_Internet
2006-12-28 01:46:28 · answer #4 · answered by B 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
exact year it was considered the internet, 1969 my friend...
2006-12-28 01:42:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋