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This 5 page paper gives a brief overview of the development of the internet and why it became so popular so fast. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the phenomena known as The Internet. Most people take it for granted without knowing how it was developed and what an incredible set of circumstances occurred which paved the way
for the creation of the World Wide Web. The Internet did not spring into life over night. It was created over many years and with the input of a great
deal many people and entire conferences. But what prompted the creation of the Internet? Did it just happen over night? Who was the mind or minds who came up with
the concept in the first place? A good deal of the incentive may still have come from the classic cold war mentality of the United States. As far back
as the late fifties there were entire departments in the government devoted to increasing the communications capabilities of the United States and her allies in the event of a nuclear
attack by Russia. Fear became a great motivator as scientists began their first forays into artificial intelligence and programming for computers. There seems to have been a mad scramble to
be the first to make this type of communications possible. A man by the name of Lawrence Roberts would head up the development of the basic components which would lead
to the final creation of the Internet capabilities. He, in conjunction with Stanford University and in International cooperation with Donald Davies at a University in the UK were able to
send the first transnational electronic communications signal as early as the sixties. But, they were still a long way off from the sleek Internet that we know today. Large conferences
were dedicated to making this type of communication possible. Where at first it had been only the federal government who was interested in it, now the private sector was getting
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