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__Origi____ ﻿ n of the Internet__ __ Creation of the Internet __ The very idea, the concept, of the internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock. On May 31, 1961, he published a paper titled, "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets". It started the idea of what you are using right now, the internet. The internet that we know right now started developing in the 1960's, and in 1968, the Network Working Group had its first meeting at the Stanford Research Institute. They talked about getting people to communicate with each other quickly and efficiently. But the thing that really began to create the internet, was ARAPNET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). ARAPNET was the first packet switching network. Packet switching is when a message is sent, but divided into packets, and individually sent on different paths to a destination where they become a message. ARAPNET wanted communication between different systems of computers easy and convenient. The internet made it easy for different universities and laboratories to communicate. People have argued over who really "invented" or "created" the internet. Many say it was Tim-Berners-Lee, who in 1989 made a proposal for a webpage. He also wrote its code. So as you can see, many different people created the internet, not just one individual. Its history is large and long, but I can't tell you the whole thing. I can tell you about some of the smaller ideas, though.

__Contributions and Other Small Things__ There are a lot of small things in the long history of things related to the internet. E-mail, which many, many people use, was introduced by Ray Tomlinson sd network e-mail in 1972. There were many other things, such as the e-book, which was started by Project Gutenberg. They began iln 1971, trying to make information and documents to people electronically. Spam, something that might not be so well liked, was made in 1978 when many e-mails were sent to Californian ARAPNET users by Gary Thuerek. Something that might interest you is the first online community. Online communities are places online where people can talk and interact.The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link). It was a collection of readers media type="youtube" key="eZSPWDMn730?rel=0" height="249" width="402" align="right"and writers who were part of the Whole Earth review. The virtual community was open and influential. Its creators were Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant. Gradually, more and more of these types of things began. In 1988, IRC (Internet Realy Chat) started, being the gaeway to things like instant messaging and other instant chat programs. In 1989, Apple pulled out of one of its projects, and it became AOL (American Online). It's still here, and made the internet popular. Sometimes these things were used weirdly the first time. For example, in 1991, the first webcam was created. But its purpose was to monitor a coffee pot for people to check if it was empty. It was started at the Cambridge university. Sometimes these things were pretty ironic. The first e-mail explained e-mail, and the first webpage explained the world wide web. There were many different people contributing to the internet, and this is only a small fraction of everything.

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