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/PanARMENIAN.Net/
02.09.2009 19:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The most revolutionary invention of 20th century
celebrates its 40th anniversary today.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United
States funded research projects of its military agencies to build
robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks.
In 1969, the Department of Defense commissions the fledgling ARPANET
(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) for network research. The
first official network nodes were UCLA, Standford Research Institute,
UCSB, and the University of Utah. The first node to node message was
sent from UCLA to SRI.
The research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone
by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation
in the development of new networking technologies and led to the
commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s when
British engineer Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web, which
resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in
virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated
quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
02.09.2009 19:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The most revolutionary invention of 20th century
celebrates its 40th anniversary today.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United
States funded research projects of its military agencies to build
robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks.
In 1969, the Department of Defense commissions the fledgling ARPANET
(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) for network research. The
first official network nodes were UCLA, Standford Research Institute,
UCSB, and the University of Utah. The first node to node message was
sent from UCLA to SRI.
The research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone
by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation
in the development of new networking technologies and led to the
commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s when
British engineer Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web, which
resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in
virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated
quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.