History of the Internet

History of the Internet The Internet has it roots in a networking project started by the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. The goal of the project was to build a network that allowed scientists at different locations to share information and work together on military and scientific projects, and could function even if part of the network were disabled or destroyed by a disaster such as a nuclear attack. The ARPANET became functional in September 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers in the United States. In 1986, the National Science Foundation (NSF) connected its huge network of five supercomputer centers, this configuration of complex networks and hosts became known as the Internet. back