World Wide Web
In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued contracts to develop a decentralized and fault-tolerant computer network called ARPANET. ARPANET was intended to be a platform to support DoD research and other academic research of interest to the DoD. As ARPANET grew and became more functional, additional educational institutions and large corporations joined the network. Throughout the 1980s the new global network grew in popularity, and both individuals and organizations of all sizes began to realize the benefits of a network with so many varied available resources. By the later 1980s, commercial service providers were offering individual access to the network, now called the Internet, for subscription fees.
Although the ...
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