The internet is not only a tool to many peoples lives its also a key part of many peoples lives. A lot of time is spent on average by someone on the internet, we now control things from banking to our interests such as photography and music.
If we go back 50 years to 1957, things were different.
Before this time computers operated on a system called batch processing, witch was a system that only allowed the computers to work on one task at a time. Obviously this was time consuming and ineffective. The computers were impracticable and massive, they had to be stored in large cooled rooms and worked on in directly. From this nerves were frayed and problems were continuous.
To solve this problem a remote connection had to be installed to allowing connection to the computers, there for involving less manual work and making things a lot easier to handle. At the same time, the idea of time sharing had risen, being the first development in computer technology which allowed the computer to be operated by different users at the same time.
October 4th 1957, during the cold war the first unmanned satellite was sent to orbit. This satellite was named Sputnik 1 and sent by the Soviet Union. The fear of a missile launch set in and America determined to stay on top of the technological race set founded the ‘Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.’ DARPA in 1958. At this point knowledge was only transferred by people, which was obviously time consuming and unhelpful but at this time people didn’t know any different.
The DARPA planned a large scale computer network which allowed people to transfer information and accelerate the transfer knowledge transfer and to avoid the doubling up of already existing knowledge and research. The network was named ‘ARPANET’ and this was the revolutionary in terms of the internet and its development. There was soon to be 3 more networks to be developed which would lead even further into the internet creation.
These 3 Networks are the basis and history of what we now know as the ‘Internet’. The first of these network was the ‘RAND’ Network a concept of a military network in America. The second was a commercial network of the ‘National Physical Laboratory’ In England. And 3rd was the scientific network in France, ‘CYCLADES’
These 4 different concept approaches are the basis and the main frame of our internet today. Which goes to show that countries across the world had all developed a certain section of a massive revolutionary development which has changed the way everything works.
ARPANET is the most familiar of theses networks and began development in 1966. Universities were always worried and concerned with sharing computers. This encouraged the development of off smaller computers which are connected to the mainframe computer, these were named ‘IMP’ the interface message processor. This to control of the network activities whilst the mainframe took care of the initialization of program’s and data files. At the same time the IMP was also an interface of the mainframe. The Imps were only connected in in a network and this became known as the IMP SUBNET.
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