Internet History
From ARPANET to Broadband
When the Department of Defense (DOD) issued a $19,800 contract on December 6, 1967, for the purpose of studying the "design and specification of a computer network," the world didn’t take notice. But it should have. For, from that small, four-month study grew the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). And, from ARPANET emerged the Internet.Like many information and communications technologies, the Internet we know today grew from seeds planted by the U.S. Government. Specifically, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was established in 1957 to respond to the perceived scientific and technological advantage the then-Soviet Union displayed in launching…
