Celebrating Internets 30th birthday

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The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s.

The public was first introduced to the Internet when a message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California.

In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized and the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced.

Based on designs by Welsh scientist Donald Davies, the Arpanet network began as a military project in the late 1960s.

Starting in 1973, work on the powerful and flexible IPS and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) technology which would change mass communications got under way.

The new systems were designed to replace the more vulnerable Network Control Program (NCP) used previously, making sure the network was not exposed to a single point of failure.

By 1983, the substitution of the older system for the new Internet protocol had been completed and the Internet was born.
Commenting on the historic event’s impact on the world, Edwards said: “The internet means there is nowhere and no one in the world you can’t reach easily and cheaply.”

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee was then able to use it to host the system of interlinked hypertext documents he invented in 1989, known as the World Wide Web.

Ref: www.wikipedia.com