Beginnings (Yep, Again)

It all began on October 4, 1957, during the cold war when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite into orbit which was called Sputnik. The time of the cold war was a technological race between the Soviets and US both in space and on land.
This launch made the US think more about science and technology, so they formed NASA and ARPA to develop space technology that marked the beginning of the Internet.

Space & Hawaii

People were concerned about what might happen if there was a Soviet attack on the nation’s telephone system, so they created ARPAnet it used packet switching (Packet
switching breaks data down into blocks, or packets)

ARPAnet was held on the government’s computer.

The ARPAnet was only connected to 4 computers until the 1970s when USH (The University of Hawaii)’s ALOHAnet was created.

TCP/IP (Still In The 1970s)

 A man named Vinton Cerf developed a way for all of the computers on all of the world’s mini networks to communicate. He called his innovation the “Transmission Control Protocol,” or TCP, he also created the “Internet Protocol.” (TCP/IP).

Internet Growth

At last Cerf’s protocol transformed the internet into a worldwide network and many people started using it.

Researchers and scientists used it to send files and
data from one computer to another.

E-commerce entrepreneurs boomed, using the internet to
sell goods.

Modernization

Later, within the 2000s social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
fired up. Then by 2015, more people accessed the internet from smartphones. Next
came the early 2020s when companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and others
started innovating advanced artificial intelligence systems to the public.