In the late 1960s, the U.S. Department of Defense developed…
In the late 1960s, the U.S. Department of Defense developed ARPANET, the first network to allow computers to communicate over long distances. In the 1980s, universities began linking their systems, expanding the network. By the early 1990s, the invention of the World Wide Web made the Internet more accessible to the public. Over the next decades, faster connections and smartphones made online communication an everyday activity. The main pattern of organization of the paragraph is