The Internet is a network of information that was originally (in the late 1960s, the exact starting in 1969) was developed by the Department of Defense and Security United States (DoD = Department of Defense USA) as a strategic project that aims to guard (the response) when an interruption on public communications networks, particularly the impact on their military communications systems. At that time the cold war between the United States with the Soviet Union was reaching its peak, so they create anticipation for any possible consequences of the war that might happen.
At first the internet is only used in limited and inter-technology research laboratories in educational institutions and research institutes have, directly involved in the project by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). But 30 years later (today), the Internet has been spreading throughout the world, from governments, small and large companies, NGOs that have a lot of individuals who use them, because of practicality as a means of communication and to search for information
Data on the Internet in 1998 stated that the e-mail may have been sent to over 150 countries in the world, transfer files (ftp) can reach to 100 of the country, and users around the world is estimated to have reached the 60 million people, or 5% of the total world's entire population. Then, based on 1999 data, Internet users around the world until May 1999 had reached 163 million people. Almost the same as the Japanese population. Address or web site (home page) now numbering about 600 million.
Since 1990, www (world wide web) menggelobal to all corners of the world, promising access to information very easily by anyone, including novice computer user once. www explosion (often called a web only) became one of the biggest factors rise of the Internet.
