The internet generated 300 and 1 billion dollars in business and was responsible for the one third of US economic. The seminal idea behind the internet was envisioned by a psychologist named J.C.R. Licklider, a professor at MIT in 1950s. At the time, terminals would be connected to a very large server and users would all access the data at the same time. His idea was that the computers would allow you to communicate better and that would allow you to better connect all the computers together so they might be more useful in sharing information among people. The first computers were enormously large and expensive devices that were never intended to communicate.
At MIT, a graduate student named Leonard Kleinrock begin applying Queuing Theory. It’s a great tool for evaluating computer in communication systems. In 1966, Robert Taylor of (ARPA), The Advanced Research Projects Agency, needed a separate terminal to log into each of several time shared computers at research centers across the country. Taylor had to move from terminal to terminal to work on a different computer. Taylor wanted to create a network because it was difficult to have 3 terminals to take 3 different machines instead in 1 terminal he could talk to all.
A creation of network which would link hetero genius computers to each other through this network. This invention would save money, time, and resources and tie each time shared computer to one of them in 1968. Roberts sought out the engineers to build the a advanced research projects agency computer network, the ARPA NET. It was going to be based on special mini computers called Interface Message Processor and packet switching.
In 1969, the first piece created for the computer network that was the 4 runner of the internet arrived at UCLA. Bob Taylor was given one million dollar to build his idea and UCLA created the first code.
In 1971, ARPA net had 18 main frame computers that hooked into the network.
In 1983, congress President Bush Congress made it official for the internet to become a public resources for everyone to use. Also, that year, ARPA became a research defense project that only a few colleges could use, because it was a difficult resource for everyone to use. Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web to help link websites to one another.
In 1993, Robert Khan, known as the father of the internet, replaced Mosaic into Netscape.