These research efforts included those of the laboratories of Donald Davies NPL , Paul Baran RAND Corporation , and Leonard Kleinrock at MIT and at UCLA | But despite this, the Internet continues to grow, driven by commerce, greater amounts of online information and knowledge and social networking known as Web 2 |
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This spread of internetworking began to form into the idea of a global network that would be called the Internet, based on standardized protocols officially implemented in 1982 | They were however still disjointed separate networks, served only by limited gateways between networks |
Adoption and interconnection occurred quickly across the advanced telecommunication networks of the western world, and then began to penetrate into the rest of the world as it became the de-facto international standard for the global network.
13History of the Internet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Commemorative plaque listing some of the early Internet pioneersBefore the wide spread of internetworking 802 | However, the disparity of growth between advanced nations and the third-world countries led to a digital divide that is still a concern today |
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Additionally, public access and hobbyist networking systems grew in popularity, including unix-to-unix copy UUCP and FidoNet | By defining a simple common network system, the Internet Protocol Suite, the concept of the network could be separated from its physical implementation |
This led to the application of packet switching to develop a protocol for internetworking, where multiple different networks could be joined together into a super-framework of networks.
Following commercialization and introduction of privately run Internet service providers in the 1980s, and the Internet's expansion for popular use in the 1990s, the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce | |
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