History of the Internet

Introduction
A commonly asked question is 'What is the Internet?' The reason such
a question gets asked so often is because there's no agreed upon
answer that neatly sums up the Internet. The Internet can be thought
about in relation to its common protocols, as a physical collection
of routers and circuits, as a set of shared resources, or even as an
attitude about interconnecting and intercommunication. Some common
definitions given in the past include:
* a network of networks based on the TCP/IP protocols,
* a community of people who use and develop those networks,
* a collection of…