The history of the internet

Abstract

The internet had its beginning in 1969 due to the effort of ARPA (Advanced Research and project Agency), that created a great scale project of interconnection through a net of computer systems between some of the American Government agencies and some universities. Among them there are the university of California in Santa Bárbara and the Institute of Research of Stanford. This group formed the ARPANET (Advanced Research and Projects Agebcy Net). This project has grown enormously with time calling the attention of the American Department of of Defense which wanted not only to control but also to command this new network. In 1983, there was the division of ARPA into two parts, one network of military computers and, one network of computers aimed at research. From the moment that the internet had its more commercial use, appropriate names and codes were created. Therefore, some of the sybols and abbreviations started to have specific meaning in the net. This symbology started to be used as means of identification for different types of sites, contry of origin pages, e-mail addresses and others. This Internet, in less than thirty years of existence, has also generated a new market which has provided users fron all over the world with the services and products affered and traded though the net. In a very short time it has become one of the biggest advents in the end of this century, which has also opened the door to new iscovveries and applications in the new millenium.