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The Original Internet Connection


The first working protoype of the internet can be traced back to a research program paid for by a United States government agency, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), during the Cold War Era. The intended purpose of the internet was to be used as a reliable source of communication between multiple computer interfaces as a means to gain advantage in the information war as tensions rose between nations. This communication interface was termed ARPANET, or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. ARPANET became the first network to connect to multiple computer interfaces by way of IP address identification. Through the basis of ARPANET technologies, the World Wide Web could begin to reshape the global system and barriers.


​The World Wide Web


Through the ideas of ARPANET spawned a new system of data connection: the World Wide Web. Creators Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, both researchers at the Council for Nuclear Research (in French Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), or CERN at the time, created the most recognizable form of the internet which is still used today. This World Wide Web sorted data and used networks in a much more efficient manner, making it possible for many computers to be connected at once. The idea of the WWW came from both partners coming up with similar ideas about hypertext, or the text that the computer computes. The creators teamed up and submitted the proposal for what would become the WWW in 1989. 

     While slow in the beginning, the WWW caught on and became the most defining factor of the globalization era. The World Wide Web, or the modern internet, broke down many barriers throughout its history and helped to shape many aspects of modern lifestyle in developed countries. While many barriers throughout history have been broken by the internet, some still remain.

An image of the first permanent ARPANET server link.

Taken November 21, 1969.

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A picture of Tim Berners-Lee during the production of the   

World Wide Web.

-Kevin N. Hume, ​​​​​​​Vimeo



"The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games."

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~ Robert Cailliau

A timeline detailing major events in the history of the internet.

History of communication, Source: ATT, ITU Communications Database, The Economist, Wikipedia

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