INTERNET

FUNDAMENTAL BASE FOR THE HUMAN BEING, BECAUSE WITH IT WE ACHIEVE MANY BENEFITS IN GENERAL

                            HOW THE INTERNET WAS CREATED

 The beginnings of the Internet go back to the 1960s. In the midst of the Cold War, the United States created an exclusively military network, with the aim that, in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from any point from the country. This network was created in 1969 and was called the ARPANET. In principle, the network had 4 computers distributed among different universities in the country. Two years later, it already had about 40 computers connected. So much was the growth of the network that its communication system became obsolete. Then two researchers created the TCP/IP Protocol, which became the communication standard within computer networks (we still use that protocol today).

The ARPANET continued to grow and open up to the world, and anyone for academic or research purposes could access the network. The military functions were separated from the ARPANET and went to MILNET, a new network created by the United States. The NSF (National Science Foundation) creates its own computer network called NSFNET, which later absorbs ARPANET, thus creating a large network for scientific and academic purposes. The development of the networks was abysmal, and new free access networks were created that later joined NSFNET, forming the embryo of what we know today as the INTERNET.