HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

1960s Telecommunications

      Essential to the early Internet concept was packet switching, in which data to be transmitted is divided into small packets of information and labeled to identify the sender and recipient. The packets were sent over a network and then reassembled at their destination. If any packet did not arrive or was not intact, the original sender was asked to resend then packet. Prior to packet switching, the less efficient circuit switching method of data transmission was used. In the early 1960s, several papers on packet switching theory were written, laying the groundwork for computer networking as it exists today.

• ARPANET, 1969
  • ARPANET is a short name for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
  • In 1969, Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) designed a network this network for the United States Department of Defense.
  • The military created ARPA� to enable researchers to share �super-computing� power.
  • It was rumored that the military developed the ARPANET in response to the threat of a nuclear attack that might destroy the country�s communication system.
  • Were located at the University of California, Los Angeles, University Of California, Santa Barbara, University of Utah and Stanford Research Institute.
  • Later, the ARPANET become known as the Internet.