history of the internet weesan lee [email protected]@cs.ucr.edu
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History of the Internet
WeeSan Lee [email protected]
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1969ARPANET was born. 4 nodes were inter-connected:UCLA,SRI,UCSB, U. of UtahCharley Kline from UCLA sent 1st packet.First RFC by Steve Crocker.
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1970RFC maintained by Jon Postel (the RFC-editor).ARPANET used NCP (Network Control Protocol), first end-to-end protocol
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197115 nodes were connected.Ray Tomlinson of BBN invented email program.
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1972@ was chosen by Ray Tomlinson to separate the userid and hostname.
First computer-to-computer chat program at UCLA.
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1973Ethernet was invented by Bob Metcalfe's (Harvard PhD Thesis)
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1974TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) was invented by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
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1975First mailing list was created by Steve Walker.
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1976Queen Elizabeth II sent out an email.
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1978TCP splited into TCP and IP.
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19793Com was co-founded by Bob Metcalfe.
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1981BITNET (Because It’s Time NETwork) was started.
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1982DoD used TCP/IP to inter-connect networks. Thus, the Internet!!!
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1983NCP → TCP/IP.ARPANET was split into ARPANET and MILNET.BSD included 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 released by Morris.CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) was formed as a result.IRC was created.
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1989> 100,000 hosts
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1990ARPANET ceased. AOL, CompuServe provided dial-up service.
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1991WWW was created by Tim Berners-Lee from CERN.Linux was released by Linus Torvalds.
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1992> 1,000,000 hosts.MBONE was created.
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1993Network Solution, Inc was chosen to provide domain name registration.www.whitehouse.gov online.Mosaic was created.
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1994NSFNET was transformed to commercial network.Shopping mall.Can order pizza online.
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1995NSFNET was reverted back to research-only network.Realaudio started.Netscape IPO.Win95 released.Bob Metcalfe predicted the Internet would collapse.
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1996Browser war (Netscape vs. 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.com for $3.3M.Google founded.Jon Postel (RFC-editor) died.
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1999First online banking.business.com sold for $7.5BNapster released.Al Gore invented the Internet???
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2000Millennium bug.Dotcom → dotgone.Clinton made first webcast.
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2001Wikipedia launched.
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2002Myspace launched.
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2003Facebook launched.
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2005Vint Cerf joined Google.
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2006> 439M hosts.10 new computers joined the Internet every second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_map_1024.jpg
Internet Map
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_History_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/v6i5_simoneli.html