History and Background

The history of the Internet is closely tied to the U.S. Department of Defense. The military was a leader in the use of computer technology in the 1960’s and saw the need to create a network that could survive a single network computer’s malfunction. In the 1970’s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) developed a network that has evolved into today’s Internet. The network was named ARPANET and had many objectives that are still relevant today.