2006-12-29 03:42:06 · 14 answers · asked by k_ogden1012 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
about 25 yrs. to the public
2006-12-29 04:47:52 · answer #1 · answered by Kathy23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if you can identify a certain starting point, because the Internet evolved from telephone access to a single mainframe computer, then to linking mainframes by telephone, and then to more complex connections. I first used this type of system in 1976. In the US, nothing much happened to the Internet outside of universities and government until the mid-1980s because there were virtually no Internet service providers, and there was also very little useful Internet content. Then all of the sudden, there was America Online, Compuserve, Compunet, Prodigy, and mostly businesses starting using the internet to conduct transactions. Somewhere in the 1980s(?), the TCP/IP specs were developed which enabled internet expansion. The internet as we know it today sort of exploded in 1993 when Mosaic was released as the first web browser.
2006-12-29 12:09:49 · answer #2 · answered by formerly_bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution."
2006-12-29 11:47:29 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 interconnected 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, 4 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.
2006-12-29 11:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by arundirect 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
27
2006-12-29 11:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mid 80s. Before it was the internet it was a govt project called Arpanet which was around some 10 years prior to the internet.
2006-12-29 11:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by bradthepilot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-29 11:44:27 · answer #7 · answered by Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Started in 1957!
2006-12-29 11:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by sarabmw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since like the early 70's.
2006-12-29 11:43:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Goodkat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the late 1950's and early 1960's. Long before Al Gore decided he invented the internet!
2006-12-29 11:44:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋