When Did The Internet Start
Internet has a history which is sprawling over many years. The internet we are using today is an evolution of the initial networks and is much more complex. New technological amendments and innovations have been added to this initial network. A long history of events covers the evolution of Internet since its birth. When did the internet start? To find an answer let’s look back at the history of the internet.
The ARPANET
The first subnet, which was the simplest and smallest form of the Internet, was formed in 1967 – and was named ARPANET after the name of ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Association). ARPANET was a result of several years of research. A research Wesley Clark suggested a network design which would be connected to more than one recipient computer for greater reliability. Also, the network design was a packet-switched network. ARPA bought the idea and gave a contract to BBN, a consulting firm, to design and implement the hardware and the software part of Wesley’s design. This network consisted of four minicomputers interconnected with 56kbps transmission lines and connected four different institutes. The ARPANET grew and more and more computers were added to the network. Soon the ARPANET spanned over entire US. It was the year 1972 when almost entire US was covered with the ARPANET. At the same time, NSF (the US National Science Foundation) designed its own subnet (NSFNET) which used hardware similar to the ARPNET but slightly different software.
The protocol to send and receive data over the ARPANET was not suitable to connect multiple computers to this network and a need to develop a new protocol was felt immediately. Then came TCP/IP on the scene and was adopted as the official protocol to be used for ‘packet-switched networks’ and the year was 1983.
With the arrival of TCP/IP there was tremendous growth in the networks, both in the ARPANET as well as NSFNET.
ARPANET and NSFNET were the very first forms of internet. So, internet was started as early as 1960s. Since then huge development has been made in the Internet. With the invention of World Wide Web the internet became available for public users and a whole new revolution came.
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