Part 2. The rise of the commercial Internet and how it grew into the network of networks.

[GemHunter]

The Internet is a network of networks. It is a truly decentralized collaborative creation, and in this series of articles, we are explaining how it works.

In Part 1, we took the journey through time and learned how this once-unimaginable idea of interconnected earth came to fruition. The Internet, originating from ARPANET, spread through the world like a virus. Albeit rapid expansion, the Internet for the longest time was government-funded and restricted to non-commercial uses such as scientific research. Only in the 90s, after passing new legislation in the US, precursors of modern-day ISPs started forming, and it kickstarted the commercialization of the Internet.

Then, the real evolution began

https://medium.com/syntropynet/the-rise-of-the-commercial-internet-and-how-it-grew-into-the-network-of-networks-part-2-a862ddd75f32 

Edited November 6, 2021 by GemHunter