MANAGEMENT

INFORMATION SYSTEM
 EVOLUTION OF INTERNET

The origin of Internet can be traced to 1969, when

the U.S. government established a network called
ARPANET, and to the efforts beginning in 1989 that
led to what is known today as the World Wide Web.
 ARPANET

 The purpose of ARPANET, a product of the Advanced Research

Projects Agency, was to make it possible for military
personnel and civilian researchers to exchange information
relating to military matters. It was the first network to
demonstrate the feasibility of computer-to-computer
transmission of data in the form of packets.

 ARPANET still exists. In facts, along with to other networks-

CSNET (Computer Science Network) and NSFNET (National
Science Foundation Network), it forms what is today known as
the Internet.
 Internet is the name given to the world’s largest collection of
computer networks, each of which is composed of a collection
of smaller networks.

 When a person requests data from the Internet, the request

travels from computer to computer through the network until
it reaches the location where the data stored. The response
follows the same computer-to-computer path back to the
person who made the request.