The Internet got started by the Defense Department as a Cold War experiment in the 1950's. The government needed a way to relay information between tanks and headquarters so the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) came up with a way to let signals from the battlefield reach a headquarters computer, using satellites and radio signals (Buick pg. 122).

Paul Baran, who worked for the U.S. Air Force, developed a network to fix this problem, by using "redundancy of connectivity". This meant that if there were a break in the network, the server would re-route the information on an alternate path through a new technique called "packet switching." Packet Switching is a means of breaking up the message being sent into small sections. The message after being broken up would take separate routes to the destinat

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In 1993, Tim Lee (from Duke University) created an interface to the World Wide Web, that he called Mosaic. The Mosaic Web Browser put a completely new look on the Internet (www.davesite.com Internet). You could navigate the World Wide Web by clicking on links with the mouse. Even more important, it gave users the option to add "players" for sound, video clips, or anything else they wanted to add.

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