Pedro Stagnes

The roots of the Internet can be traced back to research that was conducted in the 1960s. Commissioned by the United States government, private commercial interests also had a part to play in building the fault-tolerant, robust, and distributed computer networks that came to form the Internet. In the 1980s, the National Science Foundation, a new United States backbone, provided a great deal of funding for the creation of the Internet. Participation in the development of the Internet really took off when private funding for similar commercial backbones took off. By the 1990’s, what had been a system of interconnected networks became a fully-fledged commercialised international network, and subsequently Tier 1’s were introduced.

The popularization of the Internet took off in the 1990s when it became incorporated into every day human life. Now, at the click of the button, one can find out almost whatever they would like. More than 2.1 billion people use Internet services as of 2011, that is a staggering third of the Earth’s population!