The Development Of The Internet Arpanet The Arpanet

The Development Of The Internet

Arpanet The Arpanet was created so that countries could keep in touch in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Arpanet stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. It was commissioned in 1969 because of the Cold War in which a lot of countries threatened one another with nuclear missiles. Russia had nuclear missiles’ but not within firing range of the U. S. A. so they asked Cuba if they could set up the missiles’ for them this was known as the Cuban missile crisis.

The World Wide Web was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. The WWW is a network of networks inside the internet. It is a huge revolution in the history of the Internet.

Features of the Internet Facebook: created in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg. Facebook has over one billion active users Google: created in September 4, 1998. Every day Google answers more than one billion questions from people around the globe Skype: Skype lets you speak or face- chat to friends or family around the world. E-mail: in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. Today it is used world wide. Ebay: was made in 1995. it is a site in which you can buy and sell almost anything!

Modern Internet The Internet today is used by millions (if not more) per day world wide. It contains millions upon millions of websites.