How Internet was invented?

Al Gore – The ex-Vise President and Senator of United States of America is often misinterpreted as inventor of Internet, but that’s not the case actually. Al Gore, himself said that “I took Initiative in creating the internet” (Resources – CNN). And he promoted it being the VP and Senator of USA. Same as the connectivity advancement platform, “Satellites” were the cause of the Internet service. How? You will get the idea reading below.

1957, Soviet Union launched the 1^st man made satellite, Americans were shocked by the news. The cold war was at its peak at that time, USA and Soviet Union considered themselves as great enemies of each other, because, If Soviet Union had made it possible to launch a satellite, it could had launched a Missile in North America.

1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (The 34^th President of USA) launched Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) as the direct response to that 1^st man made satellite (Sputnik) launch. ARPA being the Research Agency also created an edge for USA over other Technology Advancing Countries. And the most interesting fact is that, ARPA had a mission in Computer Sciences.

Computers were huge machines in 1950’s that could easily fill the entire room and the processing speed of those Computers was fraction of what we are using now a days, but those were lacking the networking system, i.e. Networking wasn’t possible at that time.

But ARPA aimed to bring network system among the Computers in Order to exchange their Computer’s data. And seek help of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) Company for the Networking Issue. And ARPA along with BBN created the network of four Computers, which can easily share their data with each other. And they called that network as ARPANET. ARPANET then started creating network with other computers and from their, Internet gave birth to itself.

Without the launch of Man-made satellite, it wouldn’t be possible to build a networking system. Some how, Satellite testing was a reason behind the Invention of ARPA and Internet. It might have taken many years to invent Internet without that launches.