The Internet began in the 1960s as a way for government scientists to share information . In this era, computers were huge machines that occupied entire rooms and that could not be moved and to be able to use the information stored in any computer one had to travel to the place where the computer was located or send magnetic tapes through the system conventional postcard.
It’s funny how if we go back a few decades earlier, Nikola Tesla himself toyed with the idea of a “world wireless system” in the early 1900s, and even visionary thinkers like Paul Otlet and Vannevar Bush conceived book storage systems. and mechanized media in the 1930s and 1940s.
But we would have to wait for the first practical schemes for the Internet in the early 1960s, when MIT’s JCR. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers.
Once the first viable prototype of the Internet saw the light thanks to the creation of Arpanet, it is imperative to cite the stage of the Cold War as a catalyst in the formation of the Internet. The launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union spurred the US Defense Department to consider ways that information could be disseminated even after a nuclear attack. This led to the formation of the ARPANET, the network that eventually evolved into what we now know as the Internet.
Did you know that her birthday is January 1? January 1, 1983 is considered the official anniversary of the Internet because it was the day that the TCP / IP protocol officially began to be used in a unified way. Before this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way of communicating with each other. The TCP / IP protocol allowed different types of machines on different networks to “talk” to each other. From that moment, all networks could be connected by a universal language.
It is clear that it has never been easier than now to access information, make purchases, work or even launch a company. But how and what did we do before their arrival?
