2nd Part

Topic 38: History of the Internet

The internet's origins can be traced back to the 1960s during the Cold War. The U.S. Department of Defense's ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) wanted a decentralized computer network that could function even if parts of it were destroyed in an attack. This project was called ARPANET.

The first successful message was sent on October 29, 1969, between two computers—one at UCLA and the other at the Stanford Research Institute. The goal was to type the word "LOGIN," but the system crashed after the first two letters, "LO," were sent.

ARPANET evolved over the next few decades, and the term "internet" was eventually adopted to describe the interconnected network of networks. The creation of the World Wide Web in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN made the internet accessible to a wider public by introducing web pages, browsers, and hyperlinks, transforming it from a scientific tool into the global platform we use today.