When was the Internet founded?

1. The birth of the Internet can be traced back to the late 1960s and early 1970s. The laboratory of the U.S. Department of Defense connected the main computers in the department and adopted some rules to realize information exchange among users. This is the birth prototype of the Internet; By 1972, the system has been connected to the host computers of 50 universities and research institutions. But the real development of the Internet began with 1985.

2. 1986, China academic online, an international networking project implemented by Beijing Institute of Computer Application Technology, with Karlsruhe University as the partner.

1In September 1987, CANET officially established the first Internet e-mail node in China in Beijing Institute of Computer Application Technology, and sent the first e-mail in China in September 14: "We can reach every corner of the world across the Great Wall." , which opened the curtain for China people to use the Internet. This email was connected to the University of Karlsruhe in Germany through the PAD set up by Italian ITAPAC in Beijing and the Datex-P packet network in Germany, and the initial communication rate was 300bps.