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The first computer was made in 1943, this computer was tasked with solving multiple math problems at the same time. -
In 1958, the United States Department of Defense launched a project tasked to keep their technology a step ahead of the others. -
Around the early 1960's engineers knew that these computers were sending messages far too quickly to make circuit switching practical, so the fix was a new invention called packet switching. This invention was created by a man by the name of Paul Baran. This invention allowed different computers send messages along the same set of wires instead of each getting one. -
In 1969, Joseph Licklider convinced the people at ARPA to fund his research into creating a computer network system later called ARPANET. This computer network system was made to message between different universities taking place in the experiment this includes: UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford University and the University of Utah. -
During the mid 1970's a few companies started to sell access to the networks, however these were separate to the main network but could do the same function. -
In 1989, the first internet service provider was created, although these companies don't own their own network they connect people to the internet. -
In 1989, a scientist by the name of Tim Burners-Lee and his college Robert Caulliau started to work on a project that could better arrange the information. This was later called the web -
After a while, ARPANET was finally replaced as the backbone of the internet for NSFNET, allowing ARPANET to finally take its break.
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In 1993, the internet was finally made public to everyone.
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In 1995, NSFNET shut down and handed everything over to the internet service providers (ISP)
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Around 2005, people had switched from dial up to broadband, which depending on the broadband type the connection can be so much faster than dial up. This allowed browsing the internet so much faster
