Introduction
History
Twenty years ago, an important discovery was made; a new form of two-way communication. This new communication medium used phone lines for transmission, but did not send traditional voice signals down the wire. Instead, binary data would be sent and received between connected computers. This new form of communication gradually became known as “The Internet.”
Many years ago, the military understood the value in a decentralized form of communication. “The Internet began as a Cold War project to create a communications network that was immune to a nuclear attack. In the 1969, the U.S. government created ARPANET, connecting four western universities and allowing researchers to use the mainframes of any of the networked institutions” (National Museum of American History, n.d.). “The ARPAnet expanded to nonmilitary uses in the 70s when universities and defense-related researchers were permitted to join the network. By the late 70s, the ARPAnet was......
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