In the present era, internet has become one of the indispensable part of our life. Most of us cannot think of is spending even one day without internet. Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible services of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching, using standard internet protocol (IP). At the eve of international internet day it will be interesting to know some historical background about internet.
Great things were happening in the world in 1969, one of this is the event when a student programmer Charley Kline, at the UCLA has transmitted the first-ever message on 29th October 1969. This event was to follow only few months after the first man landed on the Moon. Charley Kline, working under the supervision of of Professor Leonard Kleinrock, transmitted a message from the computer housed at the UCLA to a computer positioned at the Stanford research institutes computers.
At the time when history was being made, internet was known as ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network).
Since 2005, the international internet day has been famously celebrated every year on the 29th of October to commemorate a momentous day in the history of telecommunications and Technology. Today the international internet day is also an online project germinating from the society of from the society, of the society and for the society. The internet is open and free for everyone. The international internet day thus celebrated this Grand democratic fervor which in essential is linked to this idea of liberation, where everyone is afforded an equal opportunity and an equal advantage to share of services, which connect the world to each other.
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