Who was the genius who came up with the thought that enabled the world to get information within the blink of an eye? The following article will cover some information on invention of the Internet, that will tell you about the mind behind it.
Internet has become a crucial part of the modern lifestyle that helps us find information, understand concepts, share our thoughts and stay connected with everyone else on the earth. Because of the Internet, everything in the world is just a click away. It is this wonderful creation that has made the proverbial 'small world', smaller still. However, the prestigious title of the 'inventor of the Internet technology' cannot be given to a single person or organization. It is the symphony of many minds that has helped in the creation of this model of self-regulated functioning, that can be easily called as the biggest democracy in the world.
Many people erroneously believe that the Internet is the same as the World Wide Web (WWW). The Internet is a huge network of computers including servers connected by cables across the world whereas the WWW is the collection of all the websites available on the Internet. The credit for the invention of the Web goes to Tim Berners-Lee who created it as recently as 1990. To know about the invention of the Internet we might have to delve a little further.
The First Step
The first person who thought of the idea to transfer information between different systems was Leonard Kleinrock. His first paper titled 'Information Flow in Large Communication Nets' was published on May 31, 1961. He replaced the old circuit switching process with a new concept that involved transmission of data via packets.
The Idea of a Network
The Soviet Union had launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, that prompted the US President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) to stay in the lead in the arms race. J.C.R. Licklider was appointed as the head of