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Today is World Internet Day. But do you know how it all started?
It all started with a military project created to connect computers from research institutions in the USA.
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This Friday is May 17, a date known for celebrating World Internet Day and which seeks to recall how one of the technologies with the greatest impact on the modern world was created.
It all began in the USA with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s, a project developed by the government agency ARPA (nowadays known as DARPA).
The project aimed to connect the computers of research institutions funded by the Pentagon using telephone lines. The objective was to create a communications system without a base, headquarters or core, a necessity created by the Cold War and the fear of an external attack, sharing information across great distances. ARPANET officially began operating in 1969.
It was later in 1973 that software engineers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP standards, which would become essential for the next generation of the Internet. They came into effect on January 1, 1983, and since then, several improvements have been made to make this network between computers a decentralised system.
However, it was with the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee that the Internet finally approached the model that we know today.
It was from this invention that the first search engine and platforms such as Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and so many other social networks that we use in our daily lives were created.
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