ARPANET – The Beginning Of The Internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

• The ARPANET, created in 1969,
• connected computers at UCLA, Stanford
• Research Institute, University of Utah
• and University of California at Santa
• Barbara
• Early internet pioneers used primitive
• command-line user interfaces to send
• e-mail, transfer files, and run scientific
• calculations on internet supercomputers
• With an estimated 500 million
• nodes and more than 2 billion users,
• the internet is huge