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Tim Berners-Lee, an engineer working at CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland, developed the idea of covering the earth with an electronic spider's web using a software program called the WWW. This later became the network of networks called the Internet. A forerunner of the Internet was the ARPAnet operated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) during the tense cold war between the east and west which spread the fear of nuclear war around the world. This was a military network conceived to provide for the possibility of nuclear attack. The network aimed to secure information reliably during an emergency by having a distributed information system rather than concentrating data at one point. Maybe the success of the Internet, which connects across international borders, is an event that symbolizes the end of the East-West Cold War. | ||
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