Information Superhighway or The Story of the Internet (Source: Krol, E. (1994). “The Whole Internet”
The Internet was born about 20 years ago, out of an effort to connect together a U.S. Defense Department network called the ARPAnet and various other radio and satellite networks.
The ARPAnet was an experimental network designed to support military research
NSF took over: It created five supercomputing centers with 56,000 bits per second connections
In 1987 Merit Network, Inc. with IBM and MCI won the management and upgrade project
In particular, the Internet grew out of research about how to build networks that could withstand partial outages (e.g., bomb attacks) and still function.