How the Internet Began…

We spend most of our day somehow connected to the internet. Whether we are working, chatting, socializing, shopping, etc. almost everything is done online. But how did this thing that consumes our lives really begin?

     1.       The internet wasn’t always about communication

One of the first internet networks was called ARPANET and it was created in 1969. This network was nothing like Twitter or Facebook; it was actually made so scientists could share their computer power as well as information.

     2.       The first email

In the year 1972, ARPANET got mail! Most computers couldn’t talk to each other yet, but it was the first time ever that academics could send and receive communications electronically.

     3.       The other side of the internet

For the first time ever, computer networks in the US and Europe started communicating with each other. It was finally possible for them to understand each other using the language TCP/IP protocols.

     4.       How the internet was born

When the last piece of the puzzle came together in the 1980s, the internet browser the World Wide Web was invented using HTTP, HTML and URLs!

     5.       Why do we call it the internet?

The word “internetted” was used way back in the day to mean interconnected or interwoven. Early web pioneers used the word “internetwork” – But now we say things like “the net”

Would you like to know what websites on the internet used to look like years ago? Visit the Wayback Machine website and check out what your favourite website used to look like back in the day!

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