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Development of Electronic Computers
The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of packet networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, Great Britain, and France. -
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Development and Improvement of the Internet
Development and improvement of Internet. -
The US Department of Defense
The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960s for packet network systems, including the development of the ARPANET (which would become the first network to use the Internet Protocol.) -
First Internet Message Sended
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Development of wide-area networking
With limited exceptions, the earliest computers connected directly to terminals used by individual users, emerged during the 1950s and became established (although greatly limited compared to modern networks) during the 1960s. -
Package Switching
The issue of connecting separate physical networks to form one logical network was the first of many problems. In the 1960s, -
Telenet packet-switched network
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Ethernet standard introduced
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1990 – Advanced Network and Services (ANS)
1990 – Advanced Network and Services (ANS):
Advanced Network and Services (ANS) was a United States non-profit organization formed in September 1990 by the NSFNET partners (Merit Network, IBM, and MCI) to run the network infrastructure for the soon to be upgraded NSFNET Backbone Service. -
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NEW INVESTIONS
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Global Communication
The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was almost instant in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, already 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.
