Ip4 History

The internet is called the highway of information by many people, and funny enough the same man who gave us the federal highway act also gave us the precursor to the internet. It was called Arpanet and was developed and funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency which is now Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A man by the name of Leonard Kleinrock was the main architect in the internet’s design, a brilliant man who made several contributions to computer science. The goal was to create a mass communication system that could handle a plethora of data if and when a nuclear war were to occur. This was the forerunner to the internet. A thing we now see as something for peace, education and over all prosperity would be used …show more content…
The protocol for the internet, the current one is ip6 which allows for 128^2 ip addresses for us to use, was developed by several people at cern Switzerland. Even though it might be the newest protocol being used it’s not the most common and it’s quite old. Ip4 is used by 94 percent of networks and computers as of now and ip6 was developed all the way back in 1998 with a mobile revision in 2004. Berners lee is considered the father of the world wide web and he created it actually just for physicists to share extraneous amounts of data more easily. He wanted to create a common ground for computers to use and share data, and he did just that. Today the internet, in my eyes, is controlled chaos. It’s composed of billions of computers and networks all working together and sharing data and somehow thanks to brilliant engineers, physicists, computer scientists, IT professionals it all works, most of the time, seamlessly. The internet has changed the face of our society, it’s made us more coupled and intertwined than we could have ever imagined. Every business now has a website, everyone uses email, and every year more people get on the internet as developing countries begin to have access to it through the buildup of