How the internet started | Fast Friday Fact

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The Internet has been around for just over 50 years, and in that time, it has grown to over 4.4 billion users, creating 2.5 exabytes of data, that’s 2,621,440 terabytes of data each day each and every day.

It all started in 1969 when the American Defense Advanced Research Project Agency otherwise known as DARPA, decide it needed a network to connect about a dozen university computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research in artificial intelligence.

The computer system they created was called the ARPANET. It was a packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol. Both of which are the foundation of the Internet today.

On October 29th, 1969, at 10:30 in the evening, the first word was sent over ARPA NET from a computer at the University of California to Sandford research institute in San Francisco. The word was Login, but the system crashed before it got to the G.

Since that point, we have laid 750,000 miles of underwater cables which have become the foundation of the internet as we know it.

The fastest Underwater cable can move 160Tb of data a second over 4,000 miles.

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