For what started as a research network that was largely owned and operated by top universities, the Internet as we know it today has become much more.
In 1969, ARPANET carried the first data packets between two separate nodes. During its genesis, ARPANET included the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute before adding the University of Utah and University of California, Santa Barbara. What began as a 4-node network in 1969 had swelled to include 213 hosts by 1981. From there, it took off.
The Internet’s…
Article Link: http://blog.fortinet.com/2017/05/19/internet2-a-collaborative-power-that-needs-to-be-secured