When did the Internet start?

Thus, by the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET, and the budding Internet was off the ground. Even at this early stage, it should be noted that the networking research incorporated both work on the underlying network and work on how to utilize the network. This tradition continues to this day.

What happened to the Internet?

The Internet just continued to grow and scale at a rapid speed. The interconnected global network of networks was finally starting to happen. It was still mainly used widely by researchers, scientists, and programmers to exchange messages and information. The general public was quite unaware of it.

What is Internet history?

These histories of the Internet have since been characterized as teleologies or Whig history; that is, they take the present to be the end point toward which history has been unfolding based on a single cause: In the case of Internet history, the epoch-making event is usually said to be the demonstration of the 4-node ARPANET network in 1969.