No, that's not a typo: the Internet has been around for 50 years now!
The landing on the moon 50 years ago outshines all other events when looking back historically at the revolutionary technical developments of 1969. The birthday of the Internet also fell in the fall of 1969.
How it all began...
It all started in 1958. At that time, then US President Dwight D. Eisenhower started a project called the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ) to catch up with the Russians in terms of space technology. But it wasn't until October 29, 1969 that the engineers managed to network two computers together so that they could exchange data with each other. That was basically the birth of the Internet (we are still years away from the World Wide Web), which was then called “ ARPANET ”.
More and more computers were connected to each other. Initially only military computers, later also university computers, communicated with each other and exchanged data with each other in a way that seems cumbersome to us today. That was all well and good, since, for example, correspondence between universities now took place in a matter of seconds, not days, but ordinary people noticed little of it.
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The World Wide Web is born
One fine day (maybe it was not so nice, we don't know) in 1990, a young engineer named Tim Berners-Lee developed something that is the basis of the World Wide Web: the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" (HTTP). This is a standard protocol that determines how data is transferred between computers.
By then, the ARPANET had grown to 300,000 interconnected computers. But as early as 1992, thanks to HTTP, the Internet grew to over a million computers. Not innocent in this was a programming language (more of a scripting language, to be precise) called HTML. This used HTTP to display texts and images clearly on pages using a “browser”.
We still see the connection between HTTP and the WWW (World Wide Web) almost every time we open a page in the browser, e.g. https://www.mimikama.org/ .
With that in mind: Happy Birthday Internet!
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