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History of Internet


Modems had been around since the 1950's but were also expensive and had not been perfected. The method of transferring data from one computer to another in those days, was to physically bring the information to another location and insert into the other computer. .
             The ARPANET, created by the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency was the predecessor to the Internet. The network was originally meant to allow scientists easier sources for running programs on single computers. Lawrence Roberts, manager of the ARPANET project worked with Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, both known for their involvement in creating the Internet, expanding the ARPANET system into networks that would be known as the Internet.
             As this new networking phenomenon reached telecommunication groups, network computer vendors and government agencies a new interest in its capabilities formed. In the 1980's the National Science Foundation took over responsibility of the Internet and in the 1990's, it was turned over to the private business sector. .
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             Evolution.
             In 1962, Paul Baran conducted a study for the U.S. Air Force on how to maintain militant control over missiles and bombs in a post nuclear environment. He proposed a method called a packet switched network. .
             Packet switching is the breaking down of data into data grams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destination of the information and the forwarding of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information arrives at its final destination computer.


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