Whether you were wondering how the Internet was brought to life or wanted to learn more about the technology behind it, this article is a must-read for you.
Nowadays, the Internet has become an essential part of our day-to-day lives as over time it was able to satisfy all humanity’s needs, when its versatility assists us in all our tasks.
But as we got used to having the comfort of accessing the internet from our devices from nearly anyplace, it gets hard to believe that there were times when such a Network did not exist.
So, the main question is “How the Internet come to be ?”

To answer this question, we first need to understand what the Internet is.
The Internet consists in a Giant Network of multiple other Networks of Computers located all around the globe, allowing the connected Hardware devices, to share different kinds of information between them.
The Development of ARPAnet
The first itineration of what we know today as the Internet emerged on 30 August 1969, when the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was developed, which was based on the concepts created by Bob Taylor and J.C.R. Licklider. The ARPANET’s goal was to create a connection between computers capable of transferring information between them, a concept that represents the foundations of today’s Internet.

The idea was put in practice in 1969 when a Computer in USCLA used the ARPAnet to transmit the message “login” to another Computer located in Standford. Although only the first two letters of the message were received at Standford, the project was considered to be an important success and the first of many to come.
The ARPAnet kept on expanding as only two years later, 4 computers were connected to the network. As of 1971, Ray Tomlinson invented the networked e-mail, developing a system which successfully allowed the users to send electronic mails to computers with a different hosting through the ARPAnet, as until that time the e-mail was limited to sending messages to the users of the same device.

Conclusion
In spite of the fact that ARPAnet can look insignificant compared with the complex network of worldwide computers that it is used today by approximately 4.66 billion people, the concept of ARPAnet is the foundation of what we call the Internet, which was followed by many other innovations.
References
- https://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm
- https://techterms.com/definition/internet
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/
- https://livinginternet.com/i/ii_licklider.htm
- https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/122099outlook-bobb.html