The Evolving Internet
Devi Ayu Gumilang (106218010) IR-B 2018 (Group 3) The Evolving Internet The origins of the Internet date back nearly 40 years, with the U.S. military's funding of a research network dubbed Arpanet in 1969. (Carolyn, 2009, p.1). ARPANET, in full Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork purpose was always more than military, but, as more academic facilities connected to it, the network did take on the tentacle-like structure military officials had envisioned. The internet essentially retains that form, although on a much larger scale and arose from a desire to share information over great distance without the need for dedicated phone connections between each computer on a network. The end of ARPANET’s day arrived in 1990 because there is another free and commercial online services like Prodigy, FidoNet, Usenet, Gopher, and many more others rose, and as NSFNET became the internet’s backbone with the introduction of the World Wide Web. ...