A Cursory Glance at the Internet's Origin

We live in an age where our lives revolve around the computer. The Internet has influenced my life so much that it’s hard for me to recall a day when I didn’t use it for something useful. We use computers and the Internet everyday so it’s rather strange to realize that most of us don’t even know what the Internet really is. It’s even stranger to imagine that someone my age, who has grown up using computers, doesn’t know the history of this thing that has changed the way we live.
The Internet was originally created in the 1960s by our government during the Cold War. At this time, the United States Department of Defense was concerned about nuclear attack and not being able to communicate with government officials if it happened. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was created to make computer networks that would allow government officials to communicate with each other if the United States was attacked. In 1969, this agency successfully created a network of four computers located at Stanford, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah called ARPANET. Hundreds of computers were connected by this network by the 1970s and by the 1980s the network had grown even more and was known as the Internet.