ARPANET to Internet The First Connection That Changed the World

There have been sixty-four years since two men sent the first packet-switched data across a telephone line, and this was the birth of the Internet. To exchange information with each other, Charley Kline and Bill Duvall came up with the idea of using data packets.

The mechanism works in the following way: A user inputs a character, which is transmitted, for example, through the use of a modem to modulate a tone of audio, to the remote destination. 

Upon receiving the character at the destination, it is repeated or sent back to its origin to guarantee that the character has been received.,

It was in the 1950s that the internet originated, and this can be traced back to the USA of those days. In the late Cold War, as tensions between North America and the Soviet Union reached their peak, a war of attrition emerged between them, which eventually led to the end of the Cold War. 

A deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons was at the disposal of both superpowers, and people lived in fear of long-range surprise attacks by either of these powers.

As a result, the US realized that it needed a communication system that would be immune from a Soviet nuclear attack that could affect its operations.

When these computers were first invented, military scientists and university employees were the only ones who could afford these large, expensive devices. 

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ARPANET to Internet The First Connection That Changed the World