A short history of the internet

This short history explores the development of the internet, from its 1950s origins, the development of the ARPANET, early uses of computer networks, the beginnings of email, the introduction of web browsers, the World Wide Web’s explosion in popularity in the late 1990s, and the ‘dotcom bubble’. Also includes a look at the inventors of the internet and definitions of packet switching, TCP/IP and DNS.

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