The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the … See more

TCP/IP
With so many different networking methods seeking interconnection, a method was needed to unify them. Louis Pouzin initiated … See more

The rapid technical advances that would propel the Internet into its place as a social system, which has completely transformed the way humans interact with each other, took place during a relatively short period from around 2005 to 2010, coinciding with the point in time in … See more

Precursors
Telegraphy The practice of transmitting messages between two different places through an … See more

NPL network
Following discussions with J. C. R. Licklider in 1965, Donald Davies became interested in data communications for computer networks. … See more

Initially, as with its predecessor networks, the system that would evolve into the Internet was primarily for government and government body use. Although commercial use was … See more

As a globally distributed network of voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks, the Internet operates without a central governing body. Each constituent network chooses the … See more