The Genesis of Internet

     

• Internet is defined as  Network of Networks-A network of interlinked computers worldwide operating on a standard protocol, which allows data to be transferred between otherwise incompatible machines(Hamill,1997)

• The origins of the Internet reach back to the research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks

•  Internet started to be publicly and commercially used in the early 1990’s

• As of 2011, more than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third of Earth's population — use the services of the Internet.     (Internet world statistics, March 2011)