INVENTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD ...

THE INTERNET
DARIUS CHIOREAN, VII B

A global system of interconnected

computer networks known as the Internet
is now used by millions of people every
day.
Behind all of these there is a whole set of
protocols and rules that someone invented
and then developed so that we can
navigate the World Wide Web.

The Internet was is the work of dozens of scientists, engineers, and programmers, each of them
contributed to features and technologies that made the Internet what we use today.
However, the one credited with inventing the internet is Lawrence Roberts, who in 1960
conducted a team of computer scientists from the US Department of Defense that built a
communications network to connect the agency's computers, which they called ARPANET (the
predecessor to the Internet).
For these invention he received the Draper Prize in 2001.
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The Email was born in 1971. Ray Tomlinson sent the first email. It was the first
messaging system that sent messages over the network to other users. Seven years later, the first
spam email was sent.
In 1973, scientists Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn created TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol), a set of communication rules for all computers connected via the
Internet. The two are considered, in the majority opinion, the inventors of the Internet.
In 1974 a commercial version of the Internet appeared, called Telenet.
In 1977, the first modem appeared, and it became the basic device for people who wanted
to discover the Internet from their homes.
In 1983, DNS (Domain Name System) appeared, thanks to scientists Paul Mockapetris
and Jon Postel. This system allowed the naming of different domains on the Internet. Thus, the
first domain on the Internet, named symbolics.com, appeared in 1985.

Three years later, the first virus appeared. Its creator had no bad intentions – he just wanted to
measure the size of the Internet, but a programming error caused several computers to be
infected. The damage caused was estimated to be somewhere between 10 and 100 million dollars.
Engineer Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of the WWW (World Wide Web) in 1989, a
system in which hypertext documents are interconnected with links to make it easier for users to
find them.

In 1990, Berners-Lee developed the HTML code, and in the summer of 1991, the World Wide
Web became accessible to everyone, laying the foundation for the Internet as we know it today.
Also in 1991, the first web camera was created. Researchers at Cambridge University's Computer
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Science Department have created a webcam to help them see if their coffee container is full
without having to get up and check.

The Internet has come a long way since then, and people have become almost addicted to it.
Looking back, it's impressive—and sometimes terrifying—how far he's come.