ABSTRACT
The Internet began in the late 1950s as a way for the American military to send messages securely. Any message would be broken into pieces, called 'packets', then sent over a number of routes via a net of communications. If one part of the net was broken the message could travel by other routes, and if any packets were intercepted then the whole message would not be revealed. It still works in much the same way today, bits of information travelling across a network of computers.
