Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic Development of the Internet.

Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic Development of the Internet. In 1962 J.C.R Licklider of MIT proposed the first global network of computers and later worked as the head of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to practically develop the network. It was his visionary idea of a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could access information similar to what we call the internet today.

The internet that we use today has its roots in a networking project started by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).ARPA is an agency of the U.S Department of Defense and its goal was to build a network that could function even of a part of it was destroyed by a nuclear attack and it would allow scientists at various location to share information and work as a team on the scientific and military projects.

The original ARPANET was a wide area network (WAN) which consisted of four main computers. One each located at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. Each one of the four computers served as the host nodes for the network. In a network, the host node is any one of the computers that directly connects to the network and transfers data and the messages on high-speed communications lines and provides network connections for other computers.

As researchers and others realized the great benefit of using ARPANET's electronic mail to share information, some organizations started connecting entire networks to ARPANET to take advantage of the communication system and the fast speed. ARPANET went through a phenomenal growth and by 1984 it had more than a thousand individual computers linked as hosts. In 1986, the National Science Foundation (NSF) connected its huge network of five supercomputers centers, called NSFnet, to ARPANET. This configuration of complex networks and hosts became the Internet.