Have you ever wonder why today we can use Internet and WWW smoothly? How is this possible?

You must know the history of the Internet in order to get the above answers. Internet evolves when it is first started as the communication tool for the U.S. military for communication among the army and agencies.

It all begins in the early 1960s, where there is research on the networking of the computers, to quickly access to data and information anywhere. In 1968, ARPANET was born. It uses packeting switching technique to transfer information among the network of computers. However, there is still some problems in compatibility (standards) among different systems.

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf worked together to come up with a new internet architecture called TCP/IP. Research started with the first three networks (ARPANET, Packet Radio, and Packet Satellite) and later to all other form of networks. Over the years, development of Internet has grown fast and in 1990s, the World-Wide-Wed was invented by Tim Berners-Lee of MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science.

The Internet and WWW has changed so fast that now it is widely commercialised and used by all ordinary people around the world. Next for the future is the world of social networking tools (blogs, facebook, RSS). The availability of pervasive networking along with other mobile communications (laptop computers, communication devices, PDAs, cellular phones), is making way for new generation of the Internet.

[Source: A Brief History of the Internet, December 2003, Internet Society (ISOC).
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml]