Question

How did the Internet begin?

Topic	Internet Basics (Computer Applications)
Type	Long Answer Type Questions
Class	10

Answer 1

Ans. In 1969, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Utah were connected with the beginning of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) using 56 kbit/s circuits, which is sponsored by the U.S. (United States) Department of Defense (DoD). The goal of this project was to connect computers at different Universities and U.S. defense.

1. In the mid-’80s another federal agency, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a new high-capacity network called NSFnet (National Science Foundation network), which was more capable than ARPANET.
    
2. The only drawback of NSFnet was that it allowed only academic research on its network and not any kind of private business on it.
    
3. Now, several private organizations and people started working to build their own networks, named private networks, which were later (in the 1990s) connected with ARPANET and NSFnet to form the Internet.
    
4.  The Internet really became popular in the 1990s after the development of World Wide Web (WWW).