History of the Internet

1) The internet had originated in the United Kingdom by Tim Berners Lee. He developed software for the World Wide Web and it officially became available from 1991. The internet initially began in the late 60s and 70s through the military. It wasn't until during the late 80s that the World Wide Web as we know came to popularity.The Internet was created as a project in 1958 by the United States Government ARPA (The Advanced Research Projects Agency) to network computers in order to gain a technological and potentially military advantage during the cold war.

2) During the creating of the internet, many people in addition to countries were responsible. There are several amounts of people who put alot of work and determination into creating the Internet. One could say the people responsible for its creation was the United States who funded programs to create military computer networks. Although another very important as well as important person who contributed in the creation of the internet, is Tim Berners Lee, who developed software for the World Wide Web and introduced it from 1991.    

3) Tim Berners Lee had initially begun networking computers before the devolopment of the PC, with the project Community Memory project in the late 1970s. Although this system had terminals for instance screens with keyboards connected to one large computer that did the actual processing). These were placed in laundromats, the Whole Earth Access store, and community centres in San Francisco, USA. This network used permanent links over a small geographical area rather than telephone lines and modems.

4) IP packet is the simplest data chunk that can be sent via the internet. All the data is partitioned into IP packets on the computer which is sending and reassembled on the receiving computer. Each IP packet contains header information that includes the type of traffic it is for instance FTP or UDP and where it originated from.

5) TCP represents Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol. These are two transmission protocols of which work together to help the servers, clients and devices on the network talk to one another.

6) Computer people like everything in letters as they often prefer it due to the efficiency and ease remembering acronyms in addition to it's shorter to type and refer to.