Happy New Internet! | Beginning of modern Internet | Techday, January 1st
On this TECHDAY in history, on January 1st 1983, all ARPANET nodes adopted the TCP/IP protocol. The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first that used the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies were crucial to the creation of the Internet we know today. Thus, New Year’s Day 1983 is considered the beginning of the modern Internet.
The project began on ideas from JCR Licklider and Bob Taylor. The creators wanted to enable recourcse sharing among computers remotely. The first computers connected to the Network Control Protocol back in 1970. Internetworking research grew and implemented the already functional network during the following the years. Through the 1980s the project received substantial funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 1983, it became a standard for all military networking as well. The ARPANET, though, was decommissioned in 1990.
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