History of the Web

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Most of us are familiar with the internet and have used the internet in one way, shape or form in the past. But how did the internet come to be and how did it get to where it is today?  In its simplest form the internet is basically a world wide network of computers that use a specific language to transfer information to one another.  The idea of a network of computers being able to communicate and transfer data between one another begin at MIT in the 1960's and the first successful transmission of data between two computers took place in 1969.  Researchers used what was called the ARPANET and the military was using the MILNET.  That was until the development of a universal language that would allow all computers to connect together called TCP/IP protocol and hence the birth of the internet.

References:
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
http://www.newmedia.org/history-of-the-internet.html?page=3