History of the internet

The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1957. Initial concepts of packet networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, Great Britain, and France.

The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960s for packet network systems, including the development of the ARPANET

 Packet switching networks such as ARPANET were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of communications protocols. The ARPANET in particular led to the development of protocols for internetworking, in which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks.

ARPANET development was centered on the Request for Comments process, still used today for proposing and distributing Internet Protocols and Systems. It is known how  "Host Software"

by: Joel Narvaez

     Roberto Nuñez