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An In-Depth Analysis of the Internet 1. Introduction to the Interelectronicnet The Internet is a vast public communication network that links computers around the world. It is generally agreed that it was established in 1969, when a government agency funded the union of four independent computer networks in the United States for research purposes. However, the idea for the Internet originated much earlier. In 1945, it was suggested to put all the world's paper-based knowledge into some kind of interpretive indexing system as a public service. In 1951, a remarkable idea was posed in a science fiction novel that anticipated the OSI layers of communication and wrote of exchanging what we now know as e-mail. In 1962, it was said that rather than just being the remote terminals of a larger computer, these nodes would also be resource centers in themselves, ready at all times to provide services to remote customers. The Internet was not originally created by a central governing authority that required consistent infrastructure balancing, but rather it evolved organically. The four government networks were formed of many independent networks, with different rules and networking principles. For the first fifteen years of its life, the Internet's meshed protocols exhibited a tremendous diversity of internal network structures. To increase connection speed, research was conducted in optical switching technologies and their exploitation. North America's very high-speed wired and wireless data networks entered internal operation by 1996. It seemed ludicrous to people in the networked community in the late 1990s, but to people working to extend the capability while preparing the applications, it simply felt like all networks were connected together in a single large mesh, each network with perhaps twenty to fifty neighboring networks. 2. Historical Development of the Internet