Internet
The Internet is a network that connects computers from all over, allowing them to communicate and exchange information with other computers as well.
Background
ARPANET
ARPANET is known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. [1]
It was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense in the late 1960s.[2] The creation of ARPANET is considered to be the first prototype of the Internet, using packet switching so that various computers were able to communicate to each other using a single network. [3] In the 1970s, scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed TCP/IP. [4] TCP/IP stood for Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. [5] The TCP/IP was model that providing standards for the ways of in which data could be transmitted between various networks. [6] On January 1st 1983, ARPANET took on TCP/IP, eventually creating what we come to know as the Internet. [7]
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