The first of the nodes was UCLA, then SRI, UCSB, and U of Utah. This was the beginning. As time went on, talk of this strange electronic world inspired others to join in. After 1973, the first international connection was established with the University College of London and Royal Radar Establishment. Our giant world just got a little smaller.
Organizations start using it for daily communications.
It was then, that the Internet got its name. Internet stands for the all of the computers, and networks interconnected to each other to form one giant blob network. Several innovations then followed that further developed this primitive Internet. Three years later, the number of hosts connected to the Internet broke 10,000. Then in 1988, the Morris worm ate its way through 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the Internet.