History of the Internet

This is just a few paragraphs to explain how we got from the Internet to the WWW.

In 1969 the U.S. Department of Defense's Advance Research Project Agency created the ARPA Network, called ARPAnet, to act as a means of communication that could withstand major catastrophes (likely a desire spawned from the cold war). This network was able to sustain the destruction of many of its computers and still be able to communicate with the remaining computers. Aside from military communication, the ARPAnet also supported communication between research organizations. In 1986, the National Science Foundation(NSF) created a network, called NSFNET, that supplanted the ARPANET and eventually became one of the main networks of the Internet.

It wasn't until congress passed the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 that the Internet became widely used in schools, colleges and businesses across the country. This act resulted in the creation of a large number of networks and improvement in access to these networks. The Internet began growing rapidly.

And then something very important happened...