Bridge the Gap
The birth of the Internet has given us many fascinating tools and avenues of socializing and doing business. While looking to the future is always exciting, exploring the history of the Internet as well as the current ways we communicate and get our information is equally amazing and worth a look of its own. The first Internet prototype came about at the end of the 1960s, originally titled the ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’ or ARPANET (Andrews, E.) Created by the United States Department of defense, it allowed multiple computers to communicate on a singular network. Not long after, in the 1970s, scientists Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the ‘Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol’, more commonly known as TCP/IP, which set universal standards on data transmission (Andrews, E.). It wasn’t until 1990, that the World Wide Web burst onto the global stage, thanks to Tim Berners-Lee. It is often used interchangeably or confused with the Internet its...