History of Broadband and the Internet
The theory of the Internet's inception dates back to the late 1950's when the US Military researched methods to improve communication networks. Toward the late 60's, the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) commenced a project called 'ARPANET' to establish test beds for new networking technologies which were linked to many universities and research centers. It's possible that ARPANET’s motivation to start interconnected networks was based on the threat or War or Nuclear attack. Although ARPANET can be accredited for the early advancement within communication network technology, it wasn’t until 1970 when a Networking Group headed by Steve Crocker developed TCP/IP, the backbone protocol of the Internet. This solved some major problems that APARNET faced in their early development. After many more years of prototype tests, research and development, the Internet finally became available to the rest of us in 1983.
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