Internet

The Internet is a publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world.

It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. ARPANET’s purpose was to conduct research into computer networking in order to provide a secure and survivable communications system in case of war. As the network quickly expanded, academics and researchers in other fields began to use it as well.^[1] The term Internet itself was defined in 1985 by the Federal Networking Council (FNC) as commercial implementation of key Internet protocols (TCP/IP) took off.^[2] The US National Science Foundation (NSF) created a network called NSFNET in the 1980s to connect academic computer centres. Private networks appeared based on the same technology and interconnected with NSFNET which continued to form an important part of the network until at was shut down in 1995 and an essentially private Internet emerged.^[3]

References

↑ Internet. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/291494/Internet - referenced 2011-01-28.
↑ Leiner, B.M. and Cerf, V.G. and Clark, D.D. and Kahn, R.E. and Kleinrock, L. and Lynch, D.C. and Postel, J. and Roberts, L.G. and Wolff, S. "A brief history of the Internet," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 39(5):22--31
↑ MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. and Varian, Hal R. "Economic FAQs About the Internet," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, 8(3):75-96.

Links

Government Did Invent the Internet, But the Market Made It Glorious by Peter G. Klein, June 2006
Liberation by Internet by Gennady Stolyarov II, September 2008
Witness the Freest Economy: the Internet by Dan O'Connor, October 2009
Opening the Internet — with an Axe by Fernando Herrera-Gonzalez, February 2010
The Internet, National Science Foundation
Internet on Wikipedia

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[Britannica_Internet-1] Internet. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/291494/Internet - referenced 2011-01-28.

[Brief_history_Internet-2] Leiner, B.M. and Cerf, V.G. and Clark, D.D. and Kahn, R.E. and Kleinrock, L. and Lynch, D.C. and Postel, J. and Roberts, L.G. and Wolff, S. "A brief history of the Internet," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 39(5):22--31

[3] MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. and Varian, Hal R. "Economic FAQs About the Internet," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, 8(3):75-96.

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