History of the internet
BEST COVER LETTERS The Internet: a network of connected networks (over 40000) with hundreds of thousands of individual computers connected to one another. In the mists of time, a long time ago (in computer terms that is), a new technology was born - the Internet. Developed originally by the United States (U.S.) military, during the cold war, to assist communications in the event of a nuclear attack, the technology was then adopted by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and various U.S. universities to exchange knowledge. As it didn't have a central hub, it was much less vulnerable to disruption or attack than a network which operated from one central location. The general public started using the Internet in the 1980s and during the 1990s the Internet grew to become a world wide phenomena. In the beginning . . . (1960s) As incredible as it sounds, the Internet can trace it's beginnings back to the former Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the first artificial ...
