Evolution of the Internet
In 1957, after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA. Soon after, Dr. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT wrote the first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking.1 This idea of “networking” was tossed around at MIT, UCLA, and at the RAND Corporation, which eventually led to ARPANET. Thanks to Licklider’s expertise, he soon integrated ARPA from military use to private universities. From the early days back in the 60s, till the present, the Internet as we know it has been ever changing, ever since.Initially, the “internet” had only 4 nodes, or hosts. As of January 2002, there were 147, 344, 723 hosts.2 In 1991, “Father of the Internet”, Timothy Berners Lee, and other researchers at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics made it possible to connect content throughout these networks using hypertext links. Prior to the “Web,” local dial-up networks could be
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