History of The Internet

History of development of the Internet begins with the formation of the united states first computer network initiated by the institution named Advance Research Project Agency (ARPAnet), which at that time connect four computers each at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California of Los Angeles on (UCLA), University of Birthday Charley Kline, and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). At that time bandwidth usage is only around 50 kbps which is owned by ATT (American Telephone and Telegraph).
Then in 1983, with the invention of TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) internet start the technical term. Initially, the Internet is used only for academic and military interests in the U.S. own. But along time, began in the 1990s the Internet began in widespread use among the general public.

In 1995, the World Wide Web technology or commonly called the Web that serves to replace the FTP began to be known, namely the technology to perform the data exchange process. With this technology, the internet can provide information in the form of multimedia. Currently, the Internet can even be used via mobile phones and communication devices such as cell phone or PDA (personal digital assistant) using technology WAP (wireless application protocol).

According to the website www.internet worldstats.com, until mid-2005 Internet users reached 938,710,929 human souls, or about 14.6% of the total world population in that year.

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