One of the hot topics dealing with computers today is the internet. Originally started as a military effort, the internet has expanded into a cornucopia of ideas ranging from entertainment to business and commerce. People communicate with friends across the country and even the world through e-mail and chat rooms on the 'net. Some sites present sports' scores updated by the minute, while other sites give you access to news stories occurring around the world as was seen by the reporters on the site reporting for local newspapers Newspapers of the World.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, wanted to created a national network of computers that would be able to communicate even during a war when one or more of the computers in the network might be destroyed. The original network involved computers set up at UCLA, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah. The network was known as ARPANET and was still in use up until 1990. These basic beginnings were the foundations of the Internet and these sites were part of the original backbone of the global spanning network of computer servers.
So how did the internet evolve from 4 computers to over 5 million? Theses answers and more may be found at the Hobbes Internet Timeline. Have you wondered who else was using the internet or how they felt about topics? Take a look at these Surveys of Internet Users. Updates of new and interesting links may be found through the Scout Report located at UW-Madison.
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