The internet according to google, is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols . It has no sole inventor and can be traced back as far as 50 years, when the US used it as a government weapon in the cold war . After the Soviet Union launched the first satellite ‘ Sputnik’ into space, many Americans began to panic. While to satellite did not do much , many Americans began to take science and technology more seri ously . Scientists and the military became concerned about what might happen if the Soviet Union attacked the na tion’s telephone system. J.C.R Licklider, a scientist from M.I.T, thought of creating a “galactic network” of computers that could communicate with one another in 1962. In 1965, another M.I.T scientist created a way of sending information from one computer to another. He called this process “Packet switching.” Around a
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