Great Inventions: The InternetWritten by Gayle Olson
Back in 1950s only computers to be found were enormous mainframe computers. These massive machines filled entire rooms and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They were very complicated and difficult to run. There was no such thing as a personal computer for use at home. These early computers could only be found in government buildings, large corporations, and universities.It took many years and technological evolution to make it possible to create computer sitting on your desk. Did you know that your personal computer is many more times as powerful as some of early computers of 1950s? In those days communication between computers did not exist. Today millions of computers are able to communicate with other computers through a modem attached to computers. The Need to Communicate What was it that happened to make computer communication necessary? In 1957, there was a lot of tension between USSR (former Soviet Union) and United States. Although countries were not at war, people felt that there could be a nuclear war. This period of time was known as Cold War. The U.S. government decided that it must keep up with technological developments by connecting major communicating centers around United States so that they could work together and communicate. These centers were to be set up so that messages could still get through even if one or more of computers were destroyed in an attack. During late 1960s, Department of Defense and Advanced Research Projects Agency worked together to create a network that would join together supercomputing centers. ARPANET, nation's first computer network, linked four West Coast universities: University of Utah; Stanford Research Center; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of California, Santa Barbara.
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