The Creation of the Internet

Many people believe that the internet was created in the Pentagon through a program called Arpanet, that was designed to survive a nuclear attack. This belief would be incorrect. Bob Taylor, the man at the head of the Arpanet project confirms this in saying, " The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was not an internet. An internet is a connection between two or more computer networks." It can be agreed that there are many people responsible for the creation of the internet and we now know that the company IBM is somewhat responsible for creating the internet, and putting it in homes. Next comes email. Email, like the internet wasn't necessarily created, but evolved from simple beginnings. Before the internet, email could only be used to send messages to people on the same computer. Once the internet was created, you were able to send messages to other computers. Email is now something that is going out of date because of facebook as well as texting.