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The Internet Today: Causes and Effects 1996 was the year of Internet. We constantly saw and heard the word Internet everywhere last year. The beginning of the Internet was the computer network called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) which started in 1969 and was supported by the Department of Defense in America since they wanted the webbed network which cannot be severed easily. At the beginning, ARPA had been used for the military need; and when it became more commercialized, it came to be called Internet. Accordingly, you can say that the need of defense caused Internet to begin. Cur