The History Of The Internet

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Agency (ARPA) devised a plan. The network
itself would be considered unreliable at all times; therefore it would never
become too dependable and powerful. Each computer on the network or node would
have its own authority to originate, pass, and receive messages. The name given
to this network was the ARPANET.

To fully understand the ARPANET, an understanding of how a network works
is needed. A network is a group of computers connected by a permanent cable or
temporary phone line. The sole purpose of a network is to be able to
communicate and send information electronically. The plan for the ARPANET was
to have the messages themselves divided into packets, each packet separately
addressed to be able to wind its way through the network on an individual basis.
If one node was gone it would not matter, the message would find a way to
another node.

The idea was kicked around by MIT, UCLA, and RAND during the sixties.
After the British setup a test network of this type, ...

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This
protocol came into use around 1977 (Zakon 5).

In 1969 there existed 4 nodes, in 1971 there were 15, and in 1972 there
were 37 nodes. This exponential growth has continued even today in 1996 there
are about 5.3 million nodes connected to the Internet (Zakon 14). The number of
people, however, is estimated because the number of people connected to any one
network varies. The amount of content over the Internet is estimated at about
12,000,000 web pages. As the numbers grew and grew the military finally dropped
out in 1983 and formed MILNET. The ARPANET also dawned a new name in 1989; it
became known as the Internet.

The ARPANET was not the only network of this time. Companies ...

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