What is The Internet & How The Internet is Developed?

           

Introduction to The Internet

• The Internet is a global network connecting millions of computers.
• It is a network of networks.
• It is a name for a vast, worldwide system consisting of people, information and computers. 
• It is an unlimited commercial opportunity.
• It is cyberspace where data surfing can be done.
• It is an ocean of information.
• It is a worldwide interconnected system of thousands of computer networks, each in turn linking thousands of computers together.

The growth of the Internet

The Internet started as a U.S. government project in the year 1960s called the ARPANET [After The Advanced Research Project Agency] which supervised it in the beginning. The ARPANET reached universities, research laboratories, and some military labs.

In the late 1980s, the National Science Foundation of U.S. funded the development of a  network, named NSFNET  to connect supercomputer centers in the United States. Many colleges and universities were encouraged to connect to that network. This large worldwide collection of networks and computer systems communicating according to the same protocols has come to be what is called the Internet.

In 1990 ARPANET was dismantled, and the public network in the U.S. was turned over to  NSFNET. In the early 1990s, commercial networks with their own Internet exchanges or gateways were allowed to conduct business on the internet and in 1993 the NSF created the InterNIC to provide Internet Service.