history of the internet
By default, any definitive history of the Internet must be short, since the Internet (in one form or another) has only been in existence for less than 30 years. The first iteration of the Internet was launched in 1971 with a public showing in early 1972. This first network, known as ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) was very primitive by today's standards, but a milestone in computer communications. ARPANET was based upon the design concepts of Larry Roberts (MIT) and was fleshed out at the first ACM symposium, held in Gaithersburg, TN in 1966, although RFPs weren't sent out until mid 1968. The Department of Defense in 1969 commissioned ARPANET, and the first node was created at the University of California in Los Angeles, running on a Honeywell DDP-516 mini-computer. The second node was established at Stanford University and launched on October first of the same year. On November 1, 1969, the third node was located at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the fourth was opened at the University of Utah in December. By 1971 15 nodes were linked including BBN, CMU, CWRU, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, MIT, NASA/Ames, RAND, SDC, SRI and UIU(C). In that same year, Larry Ro
It was because of the growing interconnectivity of new networks that the phrase "Internet" was coined in 1982, and the Department of Defense also declared TCP/IP to be its defacto standard. Since 1995, some of the new and/or emerging technologies have included Server Push, Multicasting, Streaming Media, E-Commerce, ASP and XML. 1974 saw the launch of TELNET public packet data service. This event marked the gradual decline of productivity over the Internet. The first international connection to ARPANET is established when the University College of London is connected in 1973, and RFC-454 "File Transfer Protocol" was published. The first name server was developed in 1983 at the University of Wisconsin, allowing users to access systems without having to know the exact path to the server. In 1981 a cooperative network between CUNY (City University of New York) and Yale was established. McCahill released Gopher from the University of Minnesota, and most notably, World-Wide Web was released by Tim Berners-Lee of CERN. By 1992 the number of hosts on the Internet had exceeded 1,000,000 and the first MBONE audio multicast was made. InterNIC provided a centralized organization for domain name registration, and continues to regulate that function today. In 1995, Compuserve, America Online and Prodigy opened up Internet access portals, and hundreds of thousands of commercial users flooded into what had previously been the private domain of veteran computer users.
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NSF InterNIC,
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Ray Tomlinson,
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larry roberts,
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