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