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History of the Internet

WeeSan Lee [email protected]


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ARPANET was born. 4nodes were inter-connected:UCLA,SRI,UCSB, U. of UtahCharley Kline from UCLA

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RFC maintained by JonPostel (theRFC-editor).

ARPANET used NCP(Network Control Protocol),

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15 nodes wereconnected.RayTomlinson of BBNinvented email program.


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1972

@ was chosen byRayTomlinson to separate theuserid and hostname.

First computer-to-computerchat program at UCLA.


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TCP (Transmission ControlProtocol) was invented byVint Cerf and Bob Kahn.


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1975

First mailing list was createdby Steve Walker.


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1976

Queen Elizabeth II sent outan email.


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1978

TCPsplitedintoTCP

andIP.


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3Com was co-founded byBob Metcalfe.


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1981BITNET (BecauseIts TimeNETwork) was started.


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1982DoD used TCP/IP to inter-connect networks. Thus, theInternet!!!


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1983NCP TCP/IP.

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1984DNS (Domain Name System)was introduced.

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1986NSFNET was created,connecting 5 super-computers.IETF was formed.

NNTP was created.


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1987> 10,000 hosts.


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1988First Internet Worm releasedby Morris.CERT (ComputerEmergencyResponseTeam) was formed

as a result.IRC was created.


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1989> 100,000 hosts


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1990ARPANETceased.AOL, CompuServe provideddial-up service.


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1991WWW was created byTim Berners-Lee from CERN.Linux was released by LinusTorvalds.


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1992> 1,000,000 hosts.MBONE was created.


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1993Network Solution,Inc waschosen to provide domainname registration.www.whitehouse.gov online.

Mosaic was created.


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199NSFNET was transformed tocommercial network.Shopping mall.Can order pizza online.


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1995NSFNET was reverted backto research-only network.Realaudio started.NetscapeIPO.

Win95 released.Bob Metcalfe predicted theInternet would collapse.


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1996Browser war (Netscapevs.IE) began.tv.com sold to CNET for$15,000.


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1997www.whitehouse.com online.business.com sold for$150,000


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19982M domain names registered.Compaq bought altavista.comfor $3.3M.Google founded.

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1999First online banking.business.com sold for $7.5BNapster released.

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2000Millennium bug.Dotcom dotgone.Clinton made first webcast.


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2006> 439M hosts.10 new computers joined theInternet every second.


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Reference

The History of the Internet http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/cerf.shtml http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

Timeline http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/2002_0918_Internet_Hi

story_and_Growth.ppt

Al Gore invented the Internet? http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt http://sethf.com/gore/

Who is managing the Internet? http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v i5_simoneli.html

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