History of the Internet

History of the Internet

     The Internet has been created from around fifty years ago. It has passed through a lot of stages before we have it in its.

In 1960’s there was a group of research scientists who came up with ideas that allowed them to think about how they can together create a globally interconnected set of computers which allowed people around the world to access easily the system from any site. One of the scientists called it “Intergalactic computer network” jokingly, but after the team began to work seriously the use to call it the internet.

       In 1964 the team begun to use their huge main frame computer. In 1969 the first network went online and they connected with four universities; the University of California in Los Angeles, SRI at Standford University, the University of California in Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. Also this group had a lot of work to get the “bugs” out in the system by brain storming.

       In 1970’s the first electronic mail delivery was available. They started to use @ to indicate an email address and the list of email the named it “Msg group”. They also us Network protocol to transfer data from computer to another using the same Network.

       In 1980 they had more than 70 sites online. In 1990 Berners Lee developed the “World Wide Web” and he used the first html source code. By 1995 the internet has been used by 16 million users and they are increasing month by month and year by year. By 2002 there were between 600 and 800 million users.