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History of the Internet began in the '60s, when Levi C. Finch and Robert W. Taylor began to conduct research on the global network and interoperability issues. Furthermore, some research programs underway to determine the mechanisms linking different networks physically. One of the solutions that emerge from these studies is a packet switching technique. In the packet switching technique, data or large files to be sent over a computer network first cut into small packets that are easier to handle and more Andal. Principal investigator in the development of packet switching is Donald Davies (NPL), Paul Baran (RAND Corporation), Leonard Kleinrock and his colleagues (MIT) and the UCLA Research Programs.

 In 1969, Robert Taylor who has been promoted as the head of the information processing office at DARPA (Army Research Agency United States) intends mengimplementaskan idea to create a system of interconnected networks. Larry Robert of MIT, Robert Taylor began a project that later became known as the ARPANET. The first ARPANET connection was formed between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) at 22:30 on October 29, 1969. On December 5, 1969, there are two more that are joining the network, the University of Utah and University of California, Santa Barbara so there are a total of four (4) node networks. ARPANET was based on ALOHAnet technology is developing very fast. In 1981, the number of nodes that are connected to 213.



In addition to research networks such as ARPANET and X.25, the computer hobbiis also developing its own network techniques are then quite popular, ie UUCP. The biggest problem with this technique is how to make various types of network equipment, such as telephone, radio, LAN cables that are physically very different to communicate with each other. Diversity of physical media networks encourage the development of procedures for communication (communication protocol) capable of internetworking, so many small networks can be interconnected into a vast computer network.

Procedure or set of communication protocol allows Internet computer network is built using a different physical channels. In simple language, using a phone connected computer, can communicate with a computer connected to a LAN network or radio network. This encourages inter-network (inter-network) globally which we later know as the "Internet".

In addition to Internet protocol, another thing that is important in the development of the Internet is a method of addressing on the Internet. Jon Postel of the Information Science Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC) is a very meritorious man behind many Internet IP address allocation, management of the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and a variety of procedures for the allocation of numbers for essential communications on the Internet. Until his death on October 16, 1998, Jon Postel manage the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). On July 21, 1998, Jon Postel Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for his services to build the Internet in the world. Currently, IANA is operated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Commercialization and privatization of the Internet began in the 1980s in the United States with at ijinkannya Internet Service Provider (ISP) to operate. Internet started booming in the 1990s. and the key drivers of change in the culture and the business world. Internet offers fast communication patterns using e-mail, free discussion forum, and the Web.