Internet Creation For Military Purposes

 The Internet Originally Was Made For The United States Military.

    The first person to conceptualize such an idea was J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his “Galactic Network” concept. He had a vision in which a globally interconnected set of computers that could quickly access data and programs from any site. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA. While at DARPA he convinced his successors, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. Roberts then took that idea to DARPA to develop the computer network concept, named ARPAnet(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).

    

    ARPAnet was the first workable prototype of the internet. On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first communication from one computer to another. The message—“LOGIN”—was short and simple, but it crashed the fledgling ARPA network anyway: The Stanford computer only received the note’s first two letters. Though this wouldn't have been possible without computer scientists developing the concept of “packet switching,” a method for effectively transmitting electronic data that would later become one of the major building blocks of the internet. (packet loss, DDOS)

    

    Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf worked on, researched, and formulated the Transmission Control Program. A protocol that enabled multiple separate networks to be joined into a network of networks. Version 4 of TCP was installed in the ARPAnet for production use in January 1983 after the DoD made it standard for all military computer networking.

    ARPAnet was formally decommissioned in 1990 after the decommission partnerships were made with Telecom industries and computer industries to commercialize a new worldwide network, the internet as we know it today. Without the work and research from DARPA, we would not be anywhere near where we are today in regards to the internet, those who worked on ARPAnet made massive headway in terms of human communication and access to information. Many of what we have today in terms of technology and social media would be non-existent if not for the internet, it's mind-boggling to think of a timeline/society in which the internet was never created. So much of our lives take place with aid of the internet in modern society, and technology is only getting more and more advanced.

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