A pioneering internet service, Arpanet turned 52 this week (Credit: Pixabay)
You who managed to open this article in a matter of seconds on your cell phone, which sends files over the networks with just one click to another device anywhere in the world, maybe you don’t know how it all started.
The answer is Arpanet, a communication system developed by the US Department of Defense, which completed 52 years of operation on October 29th.
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Its beginnings, however, were not very promising. On one side was UCLA student Charley Kline, who sat at a computer and tried to send the “login” message to another computer at the Stanford Research Institute, 350 miles away. It didn’t work and the signal dropped after sending the second letter.
Originally built to be a secure channel for transmitting military messages without the risk of falling into enemy hands, it was the first to use the NCP (Network Control Protocol) and TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), that you may have already heard about.
The invention was improved due to the cold war scenario lived in that period. Any carelessness with information was little at that moment of polarization with the USSR.
This is where a little-known story comes in, at least here on the western side. The Soviet Union also had a project to build its own information distribution integration system, developed by the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics.
In 1962, scientist Victor Glushkov started a project called the State Automated Management System, which aimed to integrate industries across the country. The bureaucratized Soviet state at the time was not interested in the evolution of the project, which ended up being forgotten.
Having been limited to the military, scientific and academic milieu until the mid-1980s, access, however, was spreading to other countries in the world, already under the name of internet.
In 1987, access to the computer network was released for commercial use in the US. With the birth of several internet providers across the country, Arpanet’s mission was already fulfilled and it was deactivated in 1990.
In 1992, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) invented the World Wide Web, a document system still used today for any user to post information on the Internet.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/the-origins-of-the-internet-cold-war-defense-system-turns-52-years-old/
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