The Internet

the Internet


The term "Internet" was adopted in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol "Internet Transmission Control Program",December 1974.As interest in wide spread networking grew and new applications for it arrived, the Internet's technologies spread throughout the rest of the world. While developed countries with technological infrastructures were joining the Internet, developing countries began to experience a digital divide separating them from the Internet. Then in the 1990's Africa ,Asia then Latin America. During the late 1980s, the first Internet service provider (ISP) companies were formed. Companies like PSINet, UUNET, Netcom, and Portal Software were formed to provide service to the regional research networks and provide alternate network access.As the Internet grew through the 1980s and early 1990s, many people realized the increasing need to be able to find and organize files and information. Tim Berners-Lee invented a network-based implementation of the hypertext concept. By releasing his invention to public use, he ensured the technology would become widespread, in the developing the world wide web.