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infrastructure.
Like the discovery of electricity, microorganisms or elementary particles, the
creation of internet opened the new page in history of humanity.
The first idea that was born from that necessity was a concept of multi-tasking.
Now we don`t think a lot about the fact,
that our computers make a lot of tasks at the same time, and that we can , for
example , work or listen to music at the same time using our computers. But in the
1950s this idea was revolutionary.
The second idea was a proposal to combine several computers into one network. Each
participate of this network could exchange with data with others. But nobody had
ideas how it was possible to do.
About 10 years scientists were creating various ideas and discarding one after
another, choosing by particles everything, that had at least some value.
That`s how the prototypes of packet exchange protocols were created ( as well as
the meaning of data exchange, transmitted by network)
In 1969, two American engineers, Robert Taylor and Lawrence Roberts, based on
previous developments of scientists, presented to the U. S. Department of Defence
the project dubbed ARPANET (the name stands for "Advanced Research Projects
Interaction Network"). On the basis of this network, it was began to develop other,
more advanced networks,
including what in the future will be known as "networks of networks." The result
of these developments was the emergence of two main network protocols - TCP and IP
- which are still used nowdays but in some modified form
more modern solution that eventually replaced ARPANET was NSFNET of the US
National Science Foundation network. Just in this network was the acceptance of TCP
or Ip as the main protocol
and the modern domain name system (DNS) also was created. So by the beginning of
the 90s, the architecture of the Internet received its modern look.
It is necessary to differ between the concepts of "Internet" and "World Wide Web".
The first relates to the network architecture in itself
The second is a more modern development, which is an interface for user access to
the network. It appeared in 1990 through the efforts of CERN scientists, especially
Tim Berners-Lee.
Thanks to him we know such terms as HTTP, HTML and the emergence of web browsers.