History of online communication

Nearly all of the communication networks only allow communications between the stations on the local network and it based on the central mainframe computer model before the introduction of internetworking. The development of the packet switching is due to variety of research programs on the articulate principles of networking between physically separate networks. Donald Davies (NPL), Paul Baran (RAND Corporation), and Leonard Kleinrock at MIT and at UCLA are the one who involved in this research. Several packet-switched networking solutions in the late 1960s and 1970s, including ARPANET and the X.25 protocols have been produced introduced due to the research. In addition, the unix-to-unix copy (UUCP) and FidoNet( the public access and hobbyist networking systems) have been widely use and popular but they were however still disjointed separate networks, served only by limited gateways between networks. Application of packet switching will happen to develop a protocol for internetworking, where multiple different networks could be joined together into a super-framework of networks. The idea of a global network that would be called the Internet, based on standardized protocols officially implemented began to form based on the general protocols officially use in 1982. The Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce because of the commercialization and introduction of privately run Internet service providers in the 1980s, and the Internet's expansion for popular use in the 1990s. For more information you can refer HERE