Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible, Sixth Edition

History

The place to begin is the beginning—and with the Internet, we need to go way back. Although the Web is the medium of the moment, the Internet has a long history, and locating its origins depends on how primitive an ancestor you seek.

The thread of the development of the Internet stretches all the way back to 1958, if you pull on it hard enough. The Internet's mother—the organization that gave birth to it—was itself born in the contrail of Sputnik. In October, 1957, the USSR took the world by surprise by launching the first artificial satellite and made the U.S. suddenly seem technologically backward. In response, President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) as part of the Department of Defense in ...