Why, When, Where was internet created?

Question

Why was internet created for what reason,
When was it being created at
Where was it first being created?

Answer 1

Creation
The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.[1][2] 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.

Licklider had moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT in 1950, after becoming interested in information technology. At MIT, he served on a committee that established Lincoln Laboratory and worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.

At the IPTO, Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.

The first TCP/IP-wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet.

It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985 . Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, BITNET and the various commercial and educational networks, such as X.25, Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet) was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dial-up access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation since the 1970s. This network eventually merged with the others in the 1990s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks, especially the international X.25 IPSS network, allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.

Answer 2

The Internet evolved from a system called the ARPANet which the US government build in the early 60s. The ARPANet was designed to support the US military and government in the event of a Soviet attack. (This was the height of the Cold War).

By the 1970s, colleges and other educational institutes were joining the network so they could support the government. NASA also used it in the space program. The 70's also saw the introduction of "html" for programing web pages

The 1980s saw it expand as large corporations began to use it. The 80s would see the invention of e-mail, and the first web browser (Netscape).

In the early 1990s, the network opened up for commercial web sites, and the first online stores began to appear. The 90s would also see the introduction of Internet Explorer.

For there the Internet has exploded to the "monster" we have today.

Answer 3

The internet can be seen as both a good and bad thing depending on how the individual uses it. The internet can be a wonderful tool, but can also be very destructive. I think there is a lot of bad on the internet, but there is a lot of good too. Oh and corrosion is right, that man could have found another way without the internet. When a person like that REALLY wants something, they stop at nothing to get it.

Answer 4

It's not something that just kinda happened one day, it was more of an evolution of computer networks

The first thing that could be called the 'internet' was ARPANET, which was created so that research labs could share information quickly. It kinda gets complicated after that

Answer 5

Wikipedia's information is *mostly* accurate, but unless you know the subject, anything Wiki claims is to be taken with a fairly large dose of salt.

That having been said, the blatant plagerism of the first answer is essentially a correct answer.

Answer 6

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml
http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm

Answer 7

It started off as a project for the military called 'Arpanet'.

Then someone figured out you could load porn on it.

That was the birth of the internet.

Answer 8

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/index.html

http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

http://www.livinginternet.com/