The document discusses the history and evolution of the internet from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET in the 1960s to today's worldwide network. It describes how ARPANET connected universities and research labs, the development of protocols that allowed networks to interconnect, and how this led to email, file transfer, and the World Wide Web in the 1990s which allowed for easy access to information on a global scale. The document also briefly touches on issues of privacy, security, and regulation that governments and organizations now face due to the pervasiveness of the internet.
The document discusses the history and evolution of the internet from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET in the 1960s to today's worldwide network. It describes how ARPANET connected universities and research labs, the development of protocols that allowed networks to interconnect, and how this led to email, file transfer, and the World Wide Web in the 1990s which allowed for easy access to information on a global scale. The document also briefly touches on issues of privacy, security, and regulation that governments and organizations now face due to the pervasiveness of the internet.
The document discusses the history and evolution of the internet from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET in the 1960s to today's worldwide network. It describes how ARPANET connected universities and research labs, the development of protocols that allowed networks to interconnect, and how this led to email, file transfer, and the World Wide Web in the 1990s which allowed for easy access to information on a global scale. The document also briefly touches on issues of privacy, security, and regulation that governments and organizations now face due to the pervasiveness of the internet.