In 1965, two separate computers in different places 'talked' to each other for the first time.
President Eisenhower formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958, with one of the remit's being to test the feasibility of a large-scale computer network. In 1965, two separate computers in different places 'talked' to each other for the first time.
The experimental link used a telephone line with an acoustically coupled modem, and transferred digital data using packets, forming the basis for the first packet-switching network and the formation of ARAPNET. From this genesis point, two computer scientists (Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf) developed TCP/IP, the set of protocols that governs how data moves through a network. This helped the ARPANET evolve into the internet we use today, becoming a global interconnected network of networks, or Internet.
An increase in the amount of computers on the network made it difficult to keep track of all the different IP addresses. This problem was solved by the introduction of the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983. DNS is the internet's equivalent of a phone book, and converts hard-to-remember IP addresses into simple names and it was one of the innovations that paved the way for the World Wide Web.
The internet started off as an intranet used by the US military.
What technological development brought in governance on how data moves through a network?
Paul Otlet conceived of a system for requesting and retrieving massive amounts of information. Calling it a 'radiated library'.