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The first form of Internet which was developed years ago was way different from the internet we are using today. Internet has taken many forms during its evolution. Many new innovations has been introduced in the Internet since then – And hence today we are experiencing the Internet which is more sophisticated and brims with higher speed, greater reliability, and larger bandwidth. Here’s a brief description of birth evolution of the Internet:

ARPANET – The very first form of Internet
ARPA is a research organization which was formed by the then U.S. President Eisenhower. One of the founding purposes of ARPA was to provide a combined platform to the researchers, scientists, and university students to come up with a solution for a better command-and-control network. The ARPA director Larry Roberts combined all the researchers and asked them to come up with a design solution for a network which could survive even the nuclear war. The need was deeply felt because the then existing military networks were not reliable. A research scientist Wesley Clark finally proposed a solution which was based on an interconnection of computers to form a subnet. The idea was bought by ARPA and the director of ARPA, Larry Roberts assigned the contract to implement the design to BBN, a consulting firm. BBN implemented the design by connecting minicomputers with 56kbps transmission lines and the birth of first ever internet took place.

1980s and the 1990s – Crucial Decades in the Evolution of Internet
During 1980s, many more computers were connected to the initial ARPANET and the network grew and covered almost all of the U.S. The ARPANET connected different universities to help communication between the researchers and students. To get connected to ARPANET an institute had to take a license from the DoD (U.S. Department of Defense). It was a long process and not every institute was eligible to get the license. So, NSF (the U.S. National Science Foundation) decided to design a network which was open for all the universities to join. This network was implemented using the hardware as the ARPANET used but software was slightly different. The network was named NSFNET.
A lot of research was also done on the protocols being used in the internet and finally a protocol was designed which could cater to multiple types of connections. The protocol was called TCP/IP. With the arrival of TCP/IP the network grew overwhelmingly.

The genesis of WWW
By the 1990s, the internet was being used by academic and research institutes only. A new technology named World Wide Web was invented by CERN physicist Tim Berners – Lee. The WWW brought a whole new revolution in the Internet and the Internet became extremely popular among non-academic users as well. Much of this progress was fuelled by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) which enabled the users to get connected to internet from their homes.

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