Story of the Internet
todo: integrate with The Secret History of the Internet - YouTube
Before the invention of the Internet, there were many different networks that were all independent and all communicate with different proprietary network protocols.
Those networks were used only by Universities and Government stuff (such as Military).
The original network was just a way of letting universities share data and remote-access powerful computers and was called ARPANET, created by the DARPA (which is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military)^[DARPA - Wikipedia].
When Steve Crocker created the ARPA “Networking Working Group” with the objective to let all the smallest networks to be able to communicate with each other, the TCP-IP Stack was created, which is an universal protocol that, if adopted by everyone, would enable the Internet, a network that contained all the other networks.
The Internet
tags: computer-networking see also: