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The origin of the Internet
is a debated issue among many as even today it is considered a relatively
new technology. The answer to this question can be summed up into
two separate parts, when was the Internet first created
and when did it first become available to the public.
The Internet was
first created in 1969 by the US Department of Defense as
an alternate means of communication in the event of a nuclear attack.
If a communication site was destroyed routers would be used to direct
traffic around the network through other available routes.
This system was known as
ARPAnet which created the TCP/IP communications standard defining
the transfer of data on the Internet today. In essence the first
true source of the Internet was a means of military defense by the
US government.
The World Wide Web (WWW)
however was invented much later by Englishman Tim Berners-Lee in
1989. The World Wide Web is defined as an information system that
links data from several internet servers under one set of protocols
called HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).
Delphi was the first actual
commercial company to offer online service to its customers in July
0f 1992. AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe all came online in
1995 when it began its first true surge of popularity and availability.
If you first remember using the Internet in the mid 90’s you are
more or less correct. So to sum it up the Internet was invented
in 1969 and first made available to the public in 1992.
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