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how does the internet work?
how does the internet work?
how was the internet invented
why was the internet invented?
how does the internet
affect us today?
how much has the internet
progressed since being
invented?
evidence:
how much more will the
internet progress in the
future?
who invented the internet
and where?
inventor but Vint Cerf and
Bob Kahn known worldwide as
two fathers of the
Internet designed the
backbone of our connected
planet the method that
allows computers to
communicate
videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&t=5&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z__QFJJHbvg&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aH4SxDu9f4&t=547&t=547s
timeline
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1950s (The Catalyst): Before
the internet, computers
could only process one task
at a time, known as batch
processing. Following the
Soviet Union's launch of
the Sputnik satellite in
1957, the United States
formed the Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) to
secure a technological edge.
This spurred early concepts
of "time-sharing" (sharing
computer processing power)
and large-scale
networking.1960s (ARPANET &
Packet Switching): In 1969,
the first node-to-node
communication network,
ARPANET, was built for
government researchers to
share information. Crucially,
the concept of packet
switching was developed.
Instead of data traveling
in one massive, easily
disrupted chunk, it was
broken down into tiny
packets that could navigate
separate routes across a
decentralized network and
reassemble at the
destination.1970s (The
Architecture of the
"Internet"): As separate
networks emerged globally
(like Cyclades in France
and NPL in England), they
were incompatible with one
another. Computer scientists
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
solved this by inventing
TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol / Internet
Protocol). This acted as a
universal language, allowing
completely different networks
to connect and safely route
data to one another—forming
an "internetwork" or
internet.1983 (The Official
Birthday): On January 1,
1983, ARPANET officially
adopted the TCP/IP standard,
marking the technical birth
of the modern
internet.1989–1991 (The World
Wide Web): While the
internet was the physical
infrastructure connecting
computers, it was text-heavy
and difficult for ordinary
people to use. In 1989,
British scientist Tim
Berners-Lee invented the
World Wide Web while
working at CERN. By
inventing HTML, HTTP, and
URLs, he made information
visual, clickable, and
universally searchable.
1969: ARPANET established by
the U.S. Department of
Defense. The first
successful two-letter message
("LO") is transmitted
between UCLA and
Stanford.1972: Email
introduced by computer
scientist Ray Tomlinson,
establishing the @ symbol
for routing messages.1983:
TCP/IP standardization
occurs. ARPANET officially
adopts the Transfer Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP), allowing diverse
computer networks to
interact seamlessly.💻 Web
1.0 (1989–2003): The
Read-Only Public Web1989:
The World Wide Web is
invented by Sir Tim
Berners-Lee at CERN. He
builds HTML, URLs, and HTTP
to organize and retrieve
online information.1993:
Mosaic browser launches. As
the first popular graphical
web browser, it allows text
and images to sit on the
same page, sparking the
public internet boom.1995:
Commercialization accelerates
as the National Science
Foundation decommissions its
network backbone. E-commerce
titans like Amazon and eBay
go live.1998: Google is
founded, reshaping how
information is searched,
indexed, and consumed.📱 Web
2.0 (2004–2020): The Mobile
and Social Era2004: Social
networking begins at a
global scale with the
launch of Facebook, shifting
internet usage from
consuming content to
creating it.2007: The iPhone
debuts, instantly
popularizing mobile data and
changing website development
toward smartphone-first
responsive design.2010:
Internet of Things (IoT)
scales up, bridging the gap
between everyday physical
appliances and online
software layers.2019:
Commercial 5G networks
rollout, dramatically
decreasing mobile latency
and improving data
density.🤖 The Intelligence
Era (2021–2026): AI,
Full-Fibre, and Predictive
Webs2022: Generative AI
breaks through to the mass
public following OpenAI’s
release of ChatGPT. AI
integration alters text
searches into conversational
queries across major
networks.2025: Predictive
interfaces dominate software.
The web transitions toward
anticipatory models that use
machine learning to adapt
layouts based on behavioral
preferences.2026: The
broadband construction boom
peaks, specifically in
regions like America,
shifting focus from initial
pandemic-era remote funding
to physical high-speed fibre
execution.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vUIPEzURCsCw-n_2CGvjaceDDxPvyX8k/view?usp=sharing
ARPANET laid the
ground work for
the modern
internet. The
first message,
"LO" was sent on
October 29th 1969.
Vincent Cerf and
Robert Kahn
developed TCPIP
enabling
communication
between different
networks. Their
work laid the way
foundation for the
internets ability
to handle massive
data.https://youtu.be/hhCFh4W5VgE
https://youtu.be/UZomljVNNak?t=22
Cerf and Kahn weren't typical
kids so it's no surprise
that their
career paths weren't typical
either when
Cerf a programmer from UCLA
and Kahn a
communications expert an
electrical
engineer from Princeton
entered the
field of computer networking
in the
1970s view computer networks
existed one
of the most advanced was
called the
ARPANET a government-funded
attempt to
link computers manufactured
with wildly
different hardware and it
worked slowly data was sent
between computers in short
bursts were packets
DEF: packets
switching was slow think of
packets as
postcards with room enough
for only a
single word each now
imagine the ARPANET
computers as Islands
connected by a
postal service that only
delivers
postcards let's say you
want to send a
short sentence to your
friend on another
island another computer if
you mailed
four postcards there's no
guarantee that
postcards will actually
arrive and if
they do they may not
arrive in the same
order they were sent
communication
DEF: TCP/IP
transmission control protocol
/ Internet
Protocol or tcp/ip and
using it computers
constructed with different
hardware schemes could
suddenly communicate quickly
and reliably the internet
was born tcp/ip is so
successful and so efficient
that more than 40 years
later it's still powering
the internet allowing for
almost every major
innovation on the web from
text only electronic
messages to email
attachments streaming music
high-resolution movies in TV
and instant access to the
collective knowledge of
humankind
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