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Internet turns 30
Tuesday January 01, 2013 08:06:29 PM,
IANS
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London: The Internet, a
revolutionary communications system used daily by billions of
people the world over, turned 30 Tuesday.
The computer network officially began functioning when it fully
substituted previous networking systems Jan 1, 1983, the Telegraph
reported.
On that day, it was the first time the US Department of
Defence-commissioned Arpanet network fully switched to use of the
Internet protocol suite (IPS) communications system.
This new method of linking computers paved the way for the arrival
of the World Wide Web (www).
Based on designs by Welsh scientist Donald Davies, the Arpanet
network began as a military project in the late 1960s.
It was developed at many American universities, including the
University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford
Research Institute.
In 1973, work on the IPS and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
technology began. The new systems were designed to replace the
more vulnerable Network Control Program (NCP) used previously, and
made sure the network was not exposed to a single point of
failure.
By Jan 1 1983, the substitution of the older system for the new
Internet protocol had been completed and the Internet was born.
British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee later used it to host a
system of interlinked hypertext documents in 1989, known as the
World Wide Web.
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