The internet has become something almost indispensable to our daily lives. In Brazil, for example, there are already more than 152 million people connected. Over the years, the network began to be used by different categories of electronic devices, smartphones and smart TVs, for example. However, many may still wonder: who actually invented the internet?
Well, at first it is important to emphasize that the internet was created for military purposes during the Cold War. The novelty was the result of the collective work of a team of researchers.
When did the internet appear?
The network emerged in October 1969 thanks to the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or Network of the Agency of Projects and Advanced Researches), an agency of the Department of Defense of the United States.
At the time, the resource also served to connect universities and research laboratories. The University of California, in fact, was the first to send an email to other educational institutions saying: "You're getting this."
One of its main features is the TCP/IP unication protocol (in Portuguese, Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, respectively).
Unication Protocol and the World Wide Web
Basically, the TCP/IP unication protocol is what establishes how data must be transmitted and received on the web. It was a way created by the researchers to allow the “conversation” between several different puters.
Its creators were: Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, often called the “fathers of the internet”.
In 1987, the internet was released for commercial use. In 1992, the World Wide Web (WWW) emerged, a network within the Internet created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. This is the portion most of us use and where all the websites are hosted.
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Tim was also the creator of the language used to create websites (HTML) and HTTP (a protocol that manages internet connections).
In 2003, the scientist received a knighthood from the Queen of England. Currently, he serves as a professor at two institutions (the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Finally, Cerf and Kahn received in 2004 the AMTuring Award, the most relevant congratulation in computer science.
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