Although I was skeptical about watching an animated video that described the history of the Internet, I was immediately intrigued. About two minutes in, I was fascinated that the Internet was conjured during the Cold War in 1957, however not actually acted upon successfully until 1970. This was interesting to me when described that the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency invented this communication tactic after the first Sputnik was released into space. It is amazing that this creation  has grown to be one of the most popular, if not the most in the near future, means of communication, social networking, education, etc.

Just as all other inventions during this time period, the United States and Soviet Union were fighting idealistically over not only who could produce the newest technology, but who would be the first to actually use these devices, such as nuclear weapons. In spite of this war being mainly between the US and USSR, England and France also built onto this conception, leading to the four major domains of the early Internet. These foundations that are now our modern Internet are the Arpanet, Rand (military), NPL (commercial), and Cyclades (scientific).